Anger daughter

Lyrics

“Angry Daughter” I learned how to stay quiet before I ever learned my name, holding my breath in doorways like silence was a game. Tiptoeing through your moods, reading every shift in your face, trying to be smaller, softer— anything that’d keep me safe. You call me “too much” now, like I wasn’t shaped by your hands, like I didn’t grow up shrinking just to fit your shifting plans. I was a child counting heartbeats every time your voice got loud, wondering how love could feel like a storm I wasn’t allowed to escape from. You don’t remember the damage— that’s the cruelest part of all, how the things that built my anger felt to you like nothing at all. Now it lives inside my chest, this fire I can’t put out, filling every “I’m okay” with everything I scream about. I don’t hate you— I wish I did. It’d be easier than missing what I never really had. So yeah, I’m angry now. I don’t soften. I don’t bend. But I swear I’ll never be you— I won’t break someone just to call it love again.