(Verse 1)
I learned real quick how to read a room
Know when danger would change the mood
I was small but I felt too much
Like innocence don’t always get to grow up
There was a shift I could never explain
How I started carrying shame in my name
Like something about me got rearranged
But nobody ever said what changed
I remember feeling trapped in my skin
Like I wasn’t safe where I’d always been
Like the air got heavy, the light got cold
And I stopped trusting what I was told
And the worst part wasn’t even the fear
It was pretending like nothing was here
Smiling while something inside me broke
Learning silence was all I could choke
(Pre-Chorus)
And I never had words for what it did
So I buried it deep like a hidden kid
But buried things don’t stay asleep
They rot in the dark and start to speak
(Chorus)
This quiet damage, it lives in me
In every thought, in every memory
I learned survival before I learned peace
Now my mind won’t ever release
Quiet damage, it shaped my frame
Put weight on a kid that couldn’t explain
I’m not broken, but I feel the strain
Of what someone left in my brain
(Verse 2)
I get triggered by things I can’t name
Like my body remembers the pain
Even when my mind says I’m fine
Something in me rewinds in time
I learned how to smile through panic attacks
How to act normal while I’m holding it back
How to sit in a room and feel alone
Even when I’m not on my own
Trust got twisted, love got weird
Everything safe started disappearing
Now I question what people mean
When they say they care or they’re being clean
And yeah, I hate what it did to me
How it rewired my ability
To feel secure without overthinking
Like my peace is always on the brink, and
(Pre-Chorus)
I didn’t choose what it left behind
But I still deal with it every night
And healing hurts in a different way
When you’re learning how to feel okay
(Chorus)
This quiet damage, it lives in me
In every breath, in every dream
I learned survival before I learned peace
Now my mind won’t ever release
Quiet damage, I wear it still
Like a scar that time can’t kill
Not broken, but I’m not the same
It changed my mind, it shaped my name
(Bridge – stripped piano, raw tone)
I wish I could go back and pull me out
Tell that kid it’s not his fault somehow
But I can’t change what was done to me
I can only change what it made of me
(Final Chorus – layered, emotional rise)
This quiet damage, it lives in me
But I’m learning it doesn’t own me
I survived what was never fair
And I’m still here, I’m still here
Quiet damage…
But I’m speaking now…
I’m not silent now…
(Outro – fading piano + breath)
I’m still here…
And it didn’t win…
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