Verse 1

I learned my name when I was bleeding

That’s when the room would finally turn

Silence only listened when I was breaking

So I made pain something I could earn

I don’t walk in—I arrive wounded

With receipts from every war I lost

If I’m hurting, I don’t have to answer

If I’m suffering, I don’t pay the cost

Pre-Chorus

Don’t ask me who I’d be without it

I don’t know my face without the bruise

If I heal, I disappear

So I keep the scar and call it truth

Chorus

This is who I am

Don’t tell me I can change

My pain is my proof

My hurt is my name

I bleed so you’ll see me

I break so I belong

If I stop being the victim

Then what was I all along

Verse 2

I call it depth, I call it feeling

I call it “I just care too much”

But every time peace gets close to me

I flinch like it’s a loaded gun

I don’t want calm, I want intensity

I don’t want love unless it aches

I turn every slight into a sermon

Every wound into a stage

Pre-Chorus

I say they did this, they did that

I rehearse it till it sounds like fate

If I’m wronged, I’m righteous

If I’m hurting, I’m absolved of blame

Chorus

This is who I am

The innocent, the scarred

I wear my suffering

Like a medal, like a guard

I don’t need to grow

I just need to be seen

If I lose my tragedy

I lose what makes me me

Bridge

Watch me turn pain into power

Watch me turn guilt into control

I don’t have to move forward

If I can pull you into the hole

I don’t threaten, I ache

I don’t demand, I fall apart

You call it compassion

I call it leverage on your heart

And when you say, “You’re not broken,”

I hear, “You don’t exist”

Because if I’m not the victim

Then I have to own all of this

Final Chorus

This is who I am

I suffer therefore I’m right

I stay wounded on purpose

So I never have to fight

Don’t hand me peace

Don’t hand me truth

Don’t take away the one thing

That keeps the world orbiting me—youI don’t need saving

I need witnesses

I don’t want healing

I want it to hurt and be witnessed

This is who I am

Don’t look away

If you hear yourself in this

Don’t lie and say you don’t