Verse 1
Everybody notices your sadness
The heaviness behind your eyes
The way your body carries exhaustion
Like you’ve been surviving your whole life
They see the moments you fall apart
The anxiety, the fear, the ache
And they build your whole identity
From the hardest breaths you take
They speak about you carefully
Like pain became your name
Like all the battles you’ve been fighting
Are all that still remain
Pre-Chorus
But they don’t know
The version I know
The one still breathing underneath it all
Chorus
Because what only I see
Is your heart when nobody’s watching
The way you still love people deeply
Even while your whole world’s collapsing
What only I see
Is softness underneath survival
A woman still carrying light
While fighting thoughts that turn violent
They only see the damage
The scars life left behind
But I still see the soul in you
That somehow survived the fire
Verse 2
They don’t see the way you laugh
When your mind finally lets you rest
Or how much guilt you carry
Every time you’re not your best
They don’t see how hard you fight
Just to make it through the day
How exhausting it becomes
To beg your own mind to stay
And maybe you’ve been drowning so long
You forgot there’s more beneath
Than the trauma and the sleepless nights
And the pressure just to breathe
Pre-Chorus
But I remember
Who you are
Even when you can’t remember yourself
Chorus
Because what only I see
Is the woman hidden in the wreckage
Still trying to love through pain
Still trying to survive the pressure
What only I see
Is beauty buried underneath hurt
A soul still worth holding
Even on the nights it feels cursed
They only see your suffering
I still see your worth
And maybe one day you’ll see yourself
The way I have since the start
Bridge
You are not just your diagnoses
Not just the fear inside your chest
Not just the nights your thoughts get dark
And steal away your rest
You are every quiet moment
You kept fighting anyway
Every time life tried to break you
And you still chose to stay
Final Chorus
So when the world reduces you
To the pain they understand
I’ll still see the woman
Hidden underneath their glance
Because what only I see
Is still the reason I hold on
A heart still capable of love
Even after everything went wrong
And if all you can feel is darkness
Then let me carry this tonight
You were never just your suffering
Not in my eyes.
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