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The Victim

V7.6
Gary Robinson
05:06
2026-02-18
5
Pop, Energetic, Guitar, 4/4, Male
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[Intro]
0:00
Verse 1
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I learned my name when I was bleeding
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That’s when the room would finally turn
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Silence only listened when I was breaking
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So I made pain something I could earn
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I don’t walk in—I arrive wounded
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With receipts from every war I lost
0:31
If I’m hurting, I don’t have to answer
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If I’m suffering, I don’t pay the cost
0:39
Pre-Chorus
0:44
Don’t ask me who I’d be without it
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I don’t know my face without the bruise
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If I heal, I disappear
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So I keep the scar and call it truth
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Chorus
1:01
This is who I am
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Don’t tell me I can change
1:03
My pain is my proof
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My hurt is my name
1:08
I bleed so you’ll see me
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I break so I belong
1:12
If I stop being the victim
1:14
Then what was I all along
1:18
Verse 2
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I call it depth, I call it feeling
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I call it “I just care too much”
1:29
But every time peace gets close to me
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I flinch like it’s a loaded gun
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I don’t want calm, I want intensity
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I don’t want love unless it aches
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I turn every slight into a sermon
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Every wound into a stage
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Pre-Chorus
2:00
I say they did this, they did that
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I rehearse it till it sounds like fate
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If I’m wronged, I’m righteous
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If I’m hurting, I’m absolved of blame
2:14
Chorus
2:18
This is who I am
2:18
The innocent, the scarred
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I wear my suffering
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Like a medal, like a guard
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I don’t need to grow
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I just need to be seen
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If I lose my tragedy
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I lose what makes me me
2:35
Bridge
2:38
Watch me turn pain into power
2:38
Watch me turn guilt into control
2:40
I don’t have to move forward
2:42
If I can pull you into the hole
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I don’t threaten, I ache
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I don’t demand, I fall apart
2:48
You call it compassion
2:51
I call it leverage on your heart
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And when you say, “You’re not broken,”
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I hear, “You don’t exist”
3:00
Because if I’m not the victim
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Then I have to own all of this
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Final Chorus
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This is who I am
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I suffer therefore I’m right
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I stay wounded on purpose
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So I never have to fight
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Don’t hand me peace
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Don’t hand me truth
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Don’t take away the one thing
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That keeps the world orbiting me—youI don’t need saving
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I need witnesses
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I don’t want healing
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I want it to hurt and be witnessed
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This is who I am
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Don’t look away
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If you hear yourself in this
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Don’t lie and say you don’t
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