Lyric

You were sitting on the bathroom floor again

Trying not to cry loud enough to hear yourself

Outside, the city kept moving like nothing happened

While you were still fighting a war no one could see

There are days the mirror feels unforgiving

Like every flaw is written in bright white light

But I wish you could see what I see

When you laugh without thinking

When you stay even after hard nights

Maybe the world asks too much from people

Who are already trying their best to breathe

We don’t have to be perfect

To deserve another morning

We don’t have to stop breaking

To still be worth holding

The scars don’t make you smaller

The fear doesn’t make you weak

Sometimes surviving this long

Is already something beautiful

The streetlights painted gold across your room

While you talked about all the ways you felt behind

But healing was never meant to look linear

And growing up was never clean or graceful

You kept apologizing for being tired

For needing space, for falling apart sometimes

But no one carries the weight of life

Without dropping pieces now and then

Maybe kindness begins

When we stop demanding perfection from ourselves

We don’t have to be perfect

To still deserve love that stays

Even the nights we feel empty

Don’t erase who we are becoming

The world can be loud and relentless

But your heart is still beating through it

And maybe that quiet persistence

Is stronger than anything else

I kept waiting to become fearless

Before allowing myself to live

But maybe courage looks more like

Showing up with trembling hands

We don’t have to be perfect

To stand beneath the morning light

Not every wound needs hiding

Not every tear needs a reason

We don’t have to be perfect

To keep moving toward tomorrow

Maybe being human was never about shining

Maybe it was always about staying

The sunrise touched the window slowly

Like it already knew we were trying