More Than Useful

Verse 1

I used to stay where I was needed

Not where I was known

Held up walls for other people

While my heart stood there alone

Every “thank you” felt like sunlight

But it faded way too fast

Turns out I was just convenient

A shadow they could cast

Pre-Chorus

I wore myself down to keep the peace

Carried weight that wasn't mine

But truth has a way of rising up

When you finally read the signs

Chorus

I'm done being loved just for what I do

Done being the fix when they’re falling through

I’m more than the hands they reach for in pain

More than the shelter in someone else's rain

I see the masks and the hollow smiles

The borrowed love that only lasts a while

So I'm walking away, letting the truth be seen

For the first time in my life

I’m choosing me

Verse 2

Funny how the silence echoes

When you stop giving more

All the ones who swore they loved you

Don’t come knocking at the door

Turns out loyalty was one-way

A road I walked alone

Now the fog has finally lifted

And their colors have been shown

Pre-Chorus

No more bending just to belong

No more drowning just to breathe

The hardest truth I ever learned

Was the one that set me free

Chorus

I'm done being loved just for what I do

Done being the fix when they’re falling through

I’m more than the hands they reach for in pain

More than the shelter in someone else's rain

I see the masks and the hollow smiles

The borrowed love that only lasts a while

So I'm walking away, letting the truth be seen

For the first time in my life

I’m choosing me

Bridge

I gave them the best parts of my soul

They gave me applause when they needed control

But strength isn't staying where you're torn apart

Sometimes the bravest thing

Is guarding your heart

Final Chorus

I'm done being loved just for what I do

Done being the answer they always knew

I’m more than the silence that carries their pain

More than the sunshine after their rain

I see them clearly, no disguise

No more believing their pretty lies

So I'm walking away, finally free

For the first time in my life

I’m choosing me

Outro

Let them wonder why I’m gone

Let them say I’ve changed somehow

I didn’t lose who I was back then

I just found myself now.