Maybe I should have thought twice about you,

Maybe I should have run sooner than I did,

Maybe if I’d had a clue

I’d have run and hid

Instead of letting you in

But it’s too late and you’re inside

Now you’re inside, and it feels like I’m living in sin

‘Cause you got in my head, and I feel as though I’ve died

Maybe instead of leaving I shoulda just stayed with you

Better to live in fear and just give in

Than to live on the outside, free but still lost, unsure what to do

With no one left and no one who could love me, is this really a win

Broken and alone, unwanted

No one wants a second hand toy, a broken mess

I’ve been wasted, all my love used up, I used to be flaunted

All over town by you, now I feel like I have become less

But, no I can’t let you have control

I can’t give in to my fears

I can’t fall back down that hole

I will not mourn you, I will not shed tears

I am free now,

You can’t reach me anymore

The memories may live all over this town

Maybe I feel like I’m just waiting for you to break down my door

Because you turned my life from a once pleasant dream

To this waking nightmare I live

Things are never as they seem

I’m held back by you, no matter how hard I try to live

You’ll always haunt me

I may never feel the same as I did

You crushed me

My spirit and the ability to live as I did

On the edge

Everything you said

All you made me pledge

God, all the times I wished I was dead

But I remain undaunted,

I will not go back to how things were, I finally fought back

I refuse to be haunted

By memories of you, and what I lack

I can’t be held down to the ground, my wings are freed

I can’t go back to who I was

But I can get back up again and lead

I can tell my story and help other girls like me escape from where I was

I am not done, I will not let myself be broken any more

His words were not my end

His blows did not sweep me off the shore

Into a sea of broken souls that time can never mend