(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
