Losing Myself

(Verse 1)

I used to bite my tongue

Swallow hurt and call it love

Kept your storm from seeing light

Just to keep you in my life

You’d pull away, I’d pull you close

Even when it hurt the most

Thought if I just stayed real small

You wouldn’t leave at all

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(Chorus)

But I was losing myself

Trying to keep you

Breaking in pieces just to please you

Calling it love when it felt like pain

Just scared you’d walk away

But what about me?

What about peace?

What about the cost of trying to keep the peace?

Yeah, I was so afraid of losing you

I didn’t see…

I was losing me

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(Verse 2)

Now I say no without a war

I don’t bleed to prove I’m yours

I learned that love don’t have to hurt

To mean something, to have worth

I stopped reaching just to bend

I won’t go back there again

If staying means I disappear

Then I’ll take freedom over fear

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(Chorus)

’Cause I was losing myself

Just to hold you

Shrinking down so I wouldn’t fold you

Took a long look in the mirror one day

And said, “I deserve to stay”

What about truth?

What about grace?

What about showing up in my own space?

I was terrified of losing you

’Til I saw…

I was already gone too

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(Bridge – soft but powerful)

I thought love meant I had to prove

That pain was worth it not to lose

But healing taught me something new—

Real love never makes you choose

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(Final Chorus – full power)

I’m done losing myself

To be enough

I don’t beg, and I don’t bluff

You can stay, or you can walk

But I won’t pay with pieces you can’t give back

What about me?

What about peace?

What about learning how to finally breathe?

If loving you means losing who I am

Then I’d rather…

Love me instead