[Verse 1]
Yeah
I was knee-deep in the mud
Blood on my sneakers
Heart in a headlock
Universe threw every single stone at my glass jaw
Shards in my pillow
Sleep felt like a gunshot
Hand-me-down pain
Hunger in the fridge light
Tears in the sink, kept scrubbing at the same fight
You bent me
Nearly broke me in two
But look what I grew into
[Chorus]
Thank you for everything you've done for me
Every scar you carved became my armor piece
You tried to drown me in that misery
But I learned I didn't need much
Just breath, just grit, just me
Thank you, Universe, for wrecking me
Now I'm free
[Verse 2]
Used to pray for an easy way out
Now I pray for a louder rage, let it break out
You lit the fuse in my rib cage, now I blaze routes
Walked through hell, flames licking at my same doubts
Now I wear every bruise like a barcode
Proof I paid the price, yeah, I marched that hard road
You starved me
Till the noise went numb
All I had left was this drum
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[whispered vocals] Maybe I was meant to be
Bare bones, bare hands, bare teeth
[crescendo]
Strip it all away, what’s left of me?
Just a voice, just a pulse
And that’s all I ever needed
[Chorus]