Me vs me

There ain’t nobody else to blame now.

Just the man I became…

and the boy that survived.

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Verse 1 — Angry Self

I will burn bridges while standing on it

Just to remind you I don’t mind swimming

I learned real young don’t nobody stay

So leaving first feel like winning

I wasn’t raised on love and patience

I was raised on fear and silence

First five years taught one truth

Love and pain spoke the same language

Hands that fed me also hurt me

Voices that held me also cursed me

So tell me why you act surprised

That something broken still lives inside me

You call it wrong, I call it defense

You call it pain, I call it sense

You had a chance to grow up safe

I only had what I was left with

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Verse 2 — Positive Self

I know where all that anger lives

I remember every door that closed

I remember wishing I was gone

At an age nobody should know

But that ain’t where the story ended

Someone reached and pulled us out

Gave us food, gave us a name

Gave us something to be proud about

They showed us work could build a life

They showed us trust could still exist

They showed us love without a price

You don’t get to pretend that don’t exist

I ain’t your enemy, I’m proof

We didn’t become what hurt us then

You ain’t just who we had to be

You’re also who we chose to be since then

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Chorus — Both

Angry Self:

If I don’t fight, I disappear

Positive Self:

If you don’t stop, there’ll be nothing here

Angry Self:

Pain is the only thing that’s true

Positive Self:

Pain ain’t the only version of you

Both:

Me vs me, who survives tonight

The hand that heals or the hand that fights

Same damn soul, same damn skin

I don’t know which one wins

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Verse 3 — Angry Self

It’s crazy how self-destruction

Feels like proof that they were wrong

Like if I break it with my own hands

At least the loss belongs

You say we had a second chance

But you don’t know what it cost to trust

Every good thing feels temporary

Every safe thing feels like luck

So don’t tell me I ain’t earned this rage

Don’t tell me I ain’t got that right

I survived the version of hell

Most people never see in life

I became this to stay alive

You became soft cause you forgot

What it took just to make it out

Of everything that we were not

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Verse 4 — Positive Self

I didn’t forget — I carry it daily

I just don’t let it drive anymore

You think holding on keeps us safe

But it’s keeping us at war

Yeah, we were shaped by broken hands

But we were also reshaped by love

By people who didn’t have to stay

But stayed when things got rough

They gave us space to become more

Than what was done to us back then

You say rage is all we know

But that ain’t how the story ends

You ain’t weak for wanting peace

You ain’t fake for letting go

You ain’t betraying who we were

You’re protecting who we’ve grown

Chorus

Angry Self:

If I don’t fight, I disappear

Positive Self:

If you don’t stop, there’ll be nothing here

Both:

Me vs me, who survives tonight

The hand that heals or the hand that fights

Same damn soul, Same damn fight