WHAT YOU MADE OF ME

Verse 1

I’ve been living like a lie I memorized

Every breath feels borrowed, every smile’s rehearsed

There’s a stranger staring back through my eyes

And he knows every sin, every curse

I drew a line between the truth and the pain

But it’s bleeding through the seams of my skin

Every name that you carved in my brain

Still screams when the silence sets in

Pre-Chorus

I tried to disappear inside your expectations

Tried to kill the parts you couldn’t stand

Now I’m standing in the wreckage of your patience

With blood on my hands

Chorus

So tear me open

Let the truth come out

I’m choking on the version

You won’t live without

If I’m broken

Say it to my face

Don’t bury me alive

In what you made of me

Verse 2

I was taught how to bite my tongue in the dark

How to smile while I rot from inside

You said pain was a necessary part

Of becoming someone worth your time

Now the walls are breathing, closing in

Every thought sounds like a loaded gun

I don’t know where you end and I begin

Or who I was before you won

Pre-Chorus

I amputated pieces just to keep you near

Now I’m less than what I used to be

If survival means I disappear

Then what’s left of me?

Chorus

So tear me open

Let the truth come out

I’m choking on the version

You won’t live without

If I’m broken

Say it to my face

Don’t bury me alive

In what you made of me

Bridge (slow, haunting)

If this is love, it feels like anesthesia

If this is home, I’m a ghost in the hall

You call it strength, but it feels like erasure

I gave you everything

You wanted it all

Breakdown (raw, screamed or half-spoken)

I bled myself clean

Just to belong

I swallowed the blame

For everything wrong

Now look at me

Look what you see

Is this what you wanted from me?

Final Chorus (bigger, desperate)

So tear me open

Let the truth come out

I’m done being silent

I’m done backing down

If I’m broken

I’ll own every scar

Just don’t bury me alive

In who you are

Outro

I won’t disappear

I won’t fade away

You don’t get to decide

What survives in me