{Intro } How do you bury yesterday, when the ghosts keep clawing in? You slipped through my fingers like sand in the crashing tide. And now I'm left with the silence.... And the ache I cannot hide. The truth is difficult to admit.... That authenticity is dangerous. To become the person you want.... You must destroy the person you are. {Verse 1} Be like water, adapt and overcome, I said. Water flows around the rock, it never fights instead. It finds another way, it doesn't stop for stone, And over time, it shapes the hardest, sharpest bone. Life throws obstacles, but resistance will defeat. So learn to change direction, never retreat. Motivation fades fast, it's a feeling, it's a spark. Discipline's the fire that keeps me moving through the dark. I won't wait for inspiration, I'm choosing to be strong. To become the person that I want, I must first move on. {Pre-Chorus } But I live in terror, that they only love the mask. The version of me that isn't me, completing every task. I built this persona just to survive the day. Because the truth is messy, and the truth makes people stray. The mask is calm, the mask is charming, the mask says, I'm fine. But deep inside, the panic spirals, crossing every line. {Chorus } How do you heal what still bleeds, when the ache rises like a tide? How do you walk through endless dusk, with nowhere left to hide? You didn't just hurt me, you taught me how to flinch. You made me measure laughter, in a never ending cinch. I am not okay, and I haven't forgotten the pain. People fall in love with the performance, not the person in the rain. And the truth still reacts to what happened years ago. Like they’re happening right now, tearing the flow. {Verse 2} I wasn't raised in softness, I learned to read the danger. The quiet was a warning, the heart of a stranger. So when life is steady now, my chest begins to tighten. Waiting for the universe to remember and to frighten. I pulled over, weeping, couldn't see the road ahead. To become the person I want, I must destroy the one who fled. I am taking back the names I called myself in the dark. The parts of me you thought you owned, are leaving their old mark. The pain has altered the entire course of my life's story. But the lessons burned the old me, for a greater, rising glory. {Bridge } To know joy, you must first taste sorrow's sting. To uncover strength, you must feel weakness bring. The weight you thought would crush me was the anchor for my climb. And the version you tried to bury, is blooming in this time. I’m teaching my bones that stillness isn't a trap. That love doesn't need to be earned, there is no need to snap. I'm setting down the apologies, rehearsed for no good reason. I'm taking back my peace in every changing season. {Instrumental Solo} (8-16 bars of Guitar/Instrumental release.) {Post-Solo Tag} I don't need the silence now, I don't need to fight the doubt. It is finished, I'm okay. I can breathe and walk away. {Outro } I hope one day someone will see the