Feel pain

Mama’s voice was thunder, Daddy’s silence like the rain

Walls held up more than memories, they held in all the pain

Dinner time was quiet, just the clinking of the forks

Love was spoken rarely, always lost behind closed doors

(Pre-Chorus)

But I learned to read the weather in their eyes

I grew up walking on a fault line

(Chorus)

Yeah, it’s rough around here, nothing soft about the truth

I found strength in all the cracks I never meant to move through

I carry every shout, every slammed door in my bones

But I made a life from the pieces they threw

Yeah, it’s rough around here — but I got through

(Verse 2)

Photos on the mantle, smiling faces out of place

Look a little closer, you can see the empty space

Holidays were battlegrounds dressed up in silver lights

I learned to fake a smile, learned to hide the fight

(Pre-Chorus)

Still I dreamed of peace in other rooms

Of a voice that didn’t shake when I told the truth

(Chorus)

Yeah, it’s rough around here, nothing soft about the truth

I found strength in all the cracks I never meant to move through

I carry every shout, every slammed door in my bones

But I made a life from the pieces they threw

Yeah, it’s rough around here — but I got through

(Bridge)

Some nights I still hear echoes down the hall

But they don’t break me anymore — no, not at all

I turned the silence into sound

I’m not lost — I’m just unbound

(Final Chorus)

It was rough around here, but I made it out alive

Wrote my story in the dark where their love didn’t arrive

I carry pain like armor, I carry scars like proof

That even in the hardest house, you can find the truth

Yeah, it’s rough around here…

But I got through