If i'm found dead

Lyrics

IF I'M FOUND DEAD Intro — piano If I’m found dead... you’ll know where to look. Seven years ago, I wrote those words. Not because I wanted to die. I wrote them because I was afraid that one day... I would be killed here. Verse 1 Today I read those words again, and suddenly I’m back there. I hear the keys. I hear the door. And my whole body remembers fear. I learned to hear danger in every sound, in every shadow, in every voice that called my name. Pre-Chorus When the arms meant to protect you become the arms you fear, you learn to disappear before the pain gets near. You make yourself smaller. You hold your breath. You wait for it to end. CHORUS — first emotional peak MY BODY WAS NO LONGER MINE. Lost in the darkness, stripped of myself. How do I learn to love my skin when it remembers what I can’t forget? I stood beneath the water trying to wash the shame away. I looked into the mirror and couldn’t recognize my face. What they did was never my fault. It was never who I am. Verse 2 Seven years have passed, but my body doesn’t know. It still waits for danger. It still prepares to run. Violence doesn’t disappear when the door finally closes. It lives inside the silence, inside the nights, inside the fear of footsteps. Always alert. Always afraid. Bridge — very intimate, building slowly I wasn’t broken. I was surviving. They made me doubt my voice, my heart, my own reality. I loved with fear inside my chest. I begged for shadows to change. I broke myself a thousand times just trying to stay. But I can hear my voice now. FINAL CHORUS — maximum climax MY BODY IS MINE AGAIN. Even if I still tremble in the dark. I’m gathering every piece they tried to tear apart. I will not hate my skin. I will not hide from the light. What they did does not define me. I am still breathing. I am still here. I am still me. From the ashes of who I was, I found a light... and that light comes from me. Outro — piano and cello, fully sung The world goes on. And I’m still here. They say that when you leave the door, everything is finally over. But the body takes time to understand freedom... and the soul takes time to heal.