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