YOU MOVE TOO FAST

You move too fast

That’s what they said

Like there was something wrong

With how my mind gets ahead

I tried to slow my heartbeat

Tried to shrink my dreams

Tried to fit inside a world

That never fit me

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I laughed it off

Like I always do

Turned every doubt

Into something cool

But every joke was just a shield

So no one saw what I could feel

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I was scared that if I stopped

There’d be nothing left of me

Like the noise inside my chest

Was the only thing that made me breathe

So I kept running through the silence

Kept proving I belong

But what if I was strong

All along?

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First time love hit me hard

Didn’t know how to stay

I held it like a lifeline

Then I pushed it away

Said words I didn’t mean

From a heart that feared the fall

I thought control meant safety

Didn’t know it meant a wall

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I thought if I could win enough

I’d finally feel secure

Didn’t know that being loved

Was never something to earn

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I was scared that if I stopped

There’d be nothing left of me

Like the noise inside my chest

Was the only thing that made me breathe

So I kept running through the silence

Kept proving I belong

But what if I was strong

All along?

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Now there’s a little voice at night

Calling out my name

And I see myself inside his eyes

Before the doubt, before the shame

And if he ever feels too much

Like the world is moving wrong

I’ll tell him what I’m learning now

You were never moving wrong

You were never too much

You were just becoming strong

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You don’t have to run forever

You don’t have to win it all

You don’t have to prove your value

Just because you learned to fall

You were never behind

Never broken, never off

You were building all that fire

You were strong

All along