**"Nobody's Girl But Mine"**
*Verse 1*
Two years and we'd pack up again
New town, new school, same old wind
I learned the map before I learned the names
Learned how fast a house stops feeling the same
Momma's world only had room for one
And it was never gonna be her daughter, not her son
*Verse 2*
Fifteen years old, I made my choice
Walked out the door and found my voice
Traded one kind of storm for a different weather
Uncle's bottle, aunt who couldn't hold it together
Nobody came running, nobody came to save me
So I raised the only girl I had — I raised me
*Chorus*
I was building something out of nothing
Learning how to stand on shaking ground
I was mothering myself when no one else would
Turning survival into something that could
Carry me forward, carry me through
I wasn't nobody's girl — I was my own, I grew
Nobody's girl but mine
*Verse 3*
They say I'm too direct, too much, too loud
I say try surviving what I lived without a sound
I didn't get soft handed down to me
I built it stone by stone, deliberately
Every job, every year, every fight I've won
Started with a fifteen-year-old on the run
*Chorus*
I was building something out of nothing
Learning how to stand on shaking ground
I was mothering myself when no one else would
Turning survival into something that could
Carry me forward, carry me through
I wasn't nobody's girl — I was my own, I grew
Nobody's girl but mine
*Bridge*
(quiet, steady, no self-pity)
I don't need the credit, don't need the parade
Just want you to know what resilience really made
It's not a headline, it's not a shiny thing
It's a girl who kept walking with nothing but her feet
*Final Chorus (full, earned, triumphant)*
I built this out of nothing, brick and bone
Learned how to make a life out of a house that was never home
I mothered myself when no one else would
And it turned into everything good
So carry me forward, look how far I've come
I wasn't nobody's girl — I built my own
Nobody's girl but mine