You lived through every step I took I ran without knowing why Chasing applause that wasn't mine Trying not to fade away When the night swallowed you whole I became a light without direction Too young to hold the world Too strong to let go of your hand I carried all the gravity Before I learned to fall You were drowning in the silence While I was learning to stand tall We rose out of the wreckage And shattered on the way I am everything you gave me And everything you took away An empty house echoes louder Than any spoken truth Half the horizon disappeared Leaving storms inside my youth I found the cracks inside the gold The shine was not what I believed But even in the broken mirror I learned to stand as me I pulled you from the bottom No one pulled me back I grew up far too early With a soul that learned to crack There's fire running Through my veins And shadows In what remains You taught me How to be strong Even when you broke my frame