[INTRO]
This is for the woman I almost lost.
The tired mother.
The one who kept saying,
“I’m fine,”
because there wasn’t time to fall apart.
The one who learned how to survive
so well
she almost forgot she was allowed to live.
I see you now.
And I came back for you.
[VERSE 1]
I remember waking up already tired
Holding little hands while walking through the fire
Everybody needed something, so I gave
Even when there wasn’t much of me left to save
I learned how to smile with a storm in my chest
How to keep moving when I needed rest
How to make a home while I was breaking inside
How to wipe little tears while swallowing mine
I became survival
I wore it like skin
Kept everybody safe
While disappearing within
But somewhere underneath
That exhausted woman knew
There was still a life
I hadn’t lived yet too
[PRE-CHORUS]
Then one day something changed
Not around me
Inside me
I looked at the woman in the mirror and said
Enough.
Enough shrinking
Enough surviving
Enough giving away every piece of me
If nobody was coming to rescue me
Then I was coming back
for me
[CHORUS]
I took my power back
Piece by piece
Called my name out of every place
That stole my peace
I took my power back
From every version of me
That thought surviving
Was all I’d ever be
I said enough is enough
I’m not dying in survival
I still got dreams
I still got fire
I still got something inside
This is not where my story ends
This is where
I begin again
[VERSE 2]
I had babies watching everything I became
So I couldn’t teach them freedom
While living afraid
Couldn’t tell my daughter
“Baby, know what you’re worth”
Then keep forgetting mine
every day on this earth
Couldn’t tell my son
“Get back up when you fall”
If I kept believing
I wasn’t worthy at all
Couldn’t teach my babies
To dream without fear
If Mama disappeared
just trying to keep everybody here
So I stopped asking
“Who am I to want more?”
Started asking
“What the hell am I waiting for?”
I had spent years
Being what everybody needed
Now it was time
To become the woman
I needed
[PRE-CHORUS]
And it wasn’t overnight
I didn’t wake up healed
I woke up willing
Willing to choose myself
Willing to rebuild
Willing to stop calling survival
a permanent home
[CHORUS]
I took my power back
Piece by piece
Called my name out of every place
That stole my peace
I took my power back
From every version of me
That thought surviving
Was all I’d ever be
I said enough is enough
I’m not dying in survival
I still got dreams
I still got fire
I still got something inside
This is not where my story ends
This is where
I begin again
[BRIDGE]
To the tired mom
sitting somewhere wondering
if this is all her life will ever be
Listen to me.
You are allowed to want more
than making it through the day.
You are allowed to have dreams
that have nothing to do
with keeping everybody else alive.
You are allowed to meet yourself again.
Not just somebody’s mother.
Not just somebody’s partner.
Not just the woman everybody calls