The Road Back to Me

I used to shrink just to make you shine

Gave up my dreams to carry yours and mine

Lost in your shadow, forgot my own name

I called it love, but I lived in pain

Told myself silence was safer than storms

Held it all in till I couldn't no more

Your needs were loud, mine barely a sound

I kept breaking just to hold you down

But something in me softly screamed

This isn't who I'm meant to be

So I let you go… to find myself again

To gather the pieces I gave till the end

I walked through the fire, but I made it free

Now I'm standing whole, finally just me

No longer chained by what love used to mean

I let you go… and found the road back to me

I cried in silence behind locked doors

Prayed for peace I couldn't find in yours

I wore your chaos like perfume and pride

Now I breathe peace on the other side

I learned that love shouldn't make me small

And I don't owe anyone my fall

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do

Is walk away to walk back to the truth

And the truth was waiting quietly

In every piece you stole from me

So I let you go… to find myself again

To gather the pieces I gave till the end

I walked through the fire, but I made it free

Now I'm standing whole, finally just me

No longer chained by what love used to mean

I let you go… and found the road back to me

I'm not bitter, I'm not broken

I'm just finally wide open

To a life I never claimed

Now I say my own name

I let you go… to find myself again

I won't ever beg for love to begin

I rose from the ashes you left in your wake

And I found a love no one could take

Not in someone else's eyes, but in mine

I let you go

And I came back to life

I let you go

And that's how I found me