Lyrics Something from Nothing - Shylock

Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it

My life is like a song that hasn't been written yet
And like any story, there's a beginning, middle and end
And from the start of it, music was a part of me
I just didn't know I was supposed to be part of it
Until I started having problems I just couldn't express
Cuz there was no one there to talk to, so I grabbed a pad and pen
And let out everything that weighed me down, that I'd been keeping in
I wrote and cried and wrote some more 'til I could breathe again
And it was healing, and a little bit relieving
Made me dig so deep into a piece of me I'd been concealing
It really hurts revealing all these secret hidden feelings
It's a fine line between torture and the key that holds your freedom
So when I write songs, I feel like The Giving Tree
Cuz every time I give, I lose another piece of me
Or do I find it? It's like every time I bleed
Someone else is healed but I feel more complete

Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it

My life is like a puzzle that's fresh outta the box
A bunch of missing pieces all just trying to find their spots
In this crazy mixed up experience called life
By the end they say it's short, but I don't see an end in sight
So I need to find myself, yeah, I'm still rough around the edges
My picture's still unclear, what I'll become is still just guesses
But I've made my way through love and hurt while picking up life lessons
At times I've felt my life was cursed, at other times a blessing
I've known the taste of victory, I've also suffered loss
I've wrestled with my demons with a stomach tied in knots
Through my whole life, everyone just always taking shots
At me 'til I fell down, but I got up and dusted off
Cuz it's all part of the plan to turn from nothing into something
From crawling baby to walking child, and now a man that's running
Toward my future while becoming just the best I ever can
Cuz everything I've been through is what made me who I am

Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it

My life is like a race out-running a black hole
Always at the starting line like ready, set, go
I'm sprinting into action, it's a fact, I'm done relaxing
Look at that, raised my potential from minimal to maximum
It's critical, it's happening
My safety shell is crackin' and
My life just went from 'blah' to 'oh my God, what's happening?'
I'm on a new path, while I figure out, I'm mapping it
I'm climbing up a mountain, people watching as I tackle it
I'm at a point right now where normally I'm panicking
It's in my past, I'm done with that
I'm takin' back my mind again
Remind again why it is that all of this is happenin'
It's in the plan for me to struggle, overcome, and laugh again
Laugh again? Yeah, laugh again
Laughter is the medicine
That heals parts of you a man made pill could never mend
And in the end, if I can make it, fighting, never giving in
Take a look cuz here I am
A broken man is whole again

Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Everything I've been through made me who I am
Now you see it, you can love it, you can hate it
But I'm so glad I'm here, I can't believe I made it