Spare Parts

(Verse 1)

You didn’t ask me to change

You just showed me what you liked

I trimmed the edges off my days

Filed my corners smooth and tight

You said you loved the quiet type

So I swallowed half my pride

Took the thunder from my voice

Took the fire from inside

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(Pre-Chorus)

Every little compromise

Felt harmless at the start

I didn’t know I was trading

Pieces of my heart

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(Chorus)

I kept replacing parts of me

With pieces borrowed from you

Changed my colors carefully

So they wouldn’t clash with you

By the time I matched your mirror

By the time I played my part

I was standing in your shadow

Made of someone else’s parts

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(Verse 2)

You liked your coffee black and strong

So I learned to like it too

Said you hated certain songs

So I said I never knew

You rolled your eyes at things I loved

Called them childish, called them small

So I boxed them up like old mistakes

Stacked them high against the wall

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(Pre-Chorus)

Every step toward “us”

Was a step away from me

Then two became one

erasing my identity

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(Chorus)

I kept replacing parts of me

With pieces borrowed from you

Changed my colors carefully

So they wouldn’t clash with you

By the time I matched your mirror

By the time I played my part

I was standing in your shadow

Made of someone else’s parts

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(Bridge – stripped down, piano + pad)

If I take it all apart

Would I find what I used to be?

Or is the original version

Just a rumor left in me?

Was I ever who I was

Or just clay in careful hands?

When the dust finally settles

Will I recognize where I stand?

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(Final Chorus – lift, layered harmonies)

I won’t keep replacing parts of me

To fit inside your design

If loving you means disappearing

Then that love was never mine

I’m gathering every fragment

Every spark I let depart

I’m rebuilding from the pieces

That were always in my heart