[Verse 1]
Dinner plates shaking
voices like knives
photos on the fridge
couldn’t save their lives
You said it’s not your fault
then you slammed that door
I was nine years old
cleaning guilt off the floor
Glass on the carpet
sleeping in my shoes
counting every bottle
like I’m counting bruises
You said you’d do better
I said “it’s okay”
then cried in the hallway
’til the sun burned gray
[Chorus]
I was just a kid in a war I didn’t start
broken glass childhood cutting through my heart
carrying your sorrow like it had my name
soaked in your secrets, drowning in your shame
I was just a kid learning how to disappear
laughing at the pain so you wouldn’t see the fear
you poured your poison, I drank your blame
broken glass childhood, trying to heal the same
[Verse 2]
Years turn colder
body grows, I don’t
trust gets older
promises, they won’t
Friend of a “friend”
said that I was safe
one locked room later
I was not the same
Staring at the ceiling
drifting out my skin
trying to forget
how his hands had been
I scrubbed till it hurt
couldn’t wash it out
so I drowned the echo
every night going loud (too loud)
[Chorus]
I was just a kid in a war I didn’t start
broken glass childhood cutting through my heart
carrying your sorrow like it had my name
soaked in your secrets, drowning in your shame
I was just a kid learning how to disappear
laughing at the pain so you wouldn’t see the fear
you poured your poison, I drank your blame
broken glass childhood, trying to heal the same
[Bridge]
Now I raise my cup
but it’s water inside (yeah)
to the ones who hurt me
and the parts that survived
You gave me your chaos
I turned it to art
you shattered my trust
but you don’t own my heart (nah)
[Chorus]
I was just a kid in a war I didn’t start
broken glass childhood cutting through my heart
carrying your sorrow like it had my name
but I’m dropping your baggage, stepping from the flame
I was just a kid, now I’m standing crystal clear
don’t need your apology to finally leave it here
you poured your poison, I broke that chain
broken glass childhood, I’m walking out again (again)