I Stayed

[Intro]

I didn’t stay for the ending…

I stayed for the mirror.

To hear the sound of my own soul

When everything else fell quiet. (pause)

[Verse 1]

Didn’t stay for the love—they weren’t giving it.

Didn’t stay for the closure—it never came.

I stayed because there was something in me

Still holding on to the version I abandoned

Just to be chosen.

I became the room they never noticed.

The light they dimmed but still needed.

I waited for someone to choose me

Until I realized…

That someone was me.

(Ohh)

[Chorus]

I stayed when silence wrapped around me like a shell.

I stayed when the pain got too easy to ignore.

I stayed not to be saved,

But to save the part of me

That still believed in the light.

I stayed to listen

To the version of me

Who had stopped speaking.

And this time…

I heard her.

[Verse 2]

They only loved the soft in me

When it didn’t confront them.

Only needed my truth

When it fit their timeline.

But I’m not made to be convenient.

I’m made to be whole.

So I stayed to find the pieces

I gave away

Too cheaply.

Now I know—

I was never too much.

They were just not enough

To hold me.

(Mmm-hmm)

[Chorus]

I stayed through the unraveling

Just to weave myself again.

Not with thread,

But with thunder.

Not with apology,

But with flame.

I stayed—not for comfort,

But for clarity.

Not for love,

But for truth.

And now, I walk—

Not away,

But into me.

[Bridge]

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