The rescuer

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I was the child who held all tears, She leaned on me through all the years, I learned too soon what strength should mean, To carry hearts that weren’t yet clean. You came to me with broken dreams, And I became your in-between, The mother’s child, the child who saves, Building walls to keep the waves. [Pre-Chorus] But who am I when no one bleeds? When silence doesn’t call for me? [Chorus] I’m always the rescuer, holding the line, Fixing the pain that was never mine, But now I’m tired, I can’t recall What it feels like not to fall. I want to help, not disappear, But where’s the line between love and fear? If I let go, will I still be kind? Or will I lose this heart of mine? [Verse 2] You saw my calm and called it grace, I saw your storm and lost my place, He had his demons, I lit his way, But I forgot my own decay. They call it empathy, a gift, But it’s a weight I can’t uplift, How do you care and still be free, When saving others swallows me? [Pre-Chorus] I’m searching for the space between, The wound, the hand, the soul unseen. [Chorus] I’m always the rescuer, holding the line, Fixing the pain that was never mine, But now I’m tired, I can’t recall What it feels like not to fall. I want to help, not disappear, But where’s the line between love and fear? If I let go, will I still be kind? Or will I lose this heart of mine? [Bridge] Maybe helping isn’t saving, Maybe love can be just staying, Not to fix, but to be near, To listen soft, to see things clear. [Final Chorus] I was the rescuer, all my life, Holding the broken, calling it right, But now I’m learning, slow and small, That I can’t rescue after all. I’ll still be gentle, still be true, But I must save me before I save you.