[Verse 1]
You said I was your mirror
Cracked glass on the hallway floor
Every promise came with a warning
Every hug felt like a war
You carved your voice in my head
All your venom in my veins
I keep checking my reflection
For your eyes behind my face
[Pre-Chorus]
Is there something in my blood
Waiting for its turn to bloom?
If I open up my mouth
Will your words come spilling through?
[Chorus]
Will I be everything you warned me I would be?
Another ghost in a family photo
Arms that only hurt and leave
Is that poison curling quiet in my bloodstream too?
Or can I cut the cord
Break the cycle
Walk away from you?
(From you, from you)
[Verse 2]
I count all the doors and exits
When I start to raise my voice
Afraid of how fast I can thunder
Afraid of how loud I rejoice
I freeze when I feel that anger
Like a stranger in my skin
Am I drawing your old outline
Or can I color something different in?
[Pre-Chorus]
If the darkness wakes at night
Does that mean it becomes me?
Or is naming what I’m scared of
Already setting something free?
[Chorus]
Will I be everything you warned me I would be?
A sharp tongue
Cold hands
Breaking what I swore I’d keep
Is that poison curling quiet in my bloodstream too?
Or can I stitch a different ending
Bleed it out
Start new?
(Start new, start new)
[Bridge]
You are not my heartbeat
You are not my fate
You’re a bruise that’s fading slowly
I am more than what you made
I can love like open windows
I can stay when fear says run
If I shake while I am trying
That just means the work’s begun (yeah)
[Chorus]
I won’t be everything you warned me I would be
I am not your tired story
I am breaking off the lead
If there’s poison sleeping quiet in my bloodstream too
Every choice I make’s an antidote pulling me from you
[Outro]
You said I was your mirror
Watch me crack that frame
I am scared and I am trying
That’s me changing
Not your name