Authenticity

Описание: We all live through other people’s eyes — judged, labeled, misunderstood. “Authenticity” is a reflection on that truth: no matter what we do, people will see their own version of us. The only one that’s real is the version that lives inside of us.

This song is for anyone who’s ever felt misunderstood, or pressured to change themselves to fit someone else’s view. It’s a reminder to be authentic, to honor your own truth, and to let the world meet the real you — however they see it.

Lyrics:

I’ve been the quiet one in someone’s room
And the loudest voice they ever knew
I’ve been too careful, then too intense
Too much heart, not enough sense

To some I’m distant, a closed-off door
To some I’m everything—and a little more
Same soul walking through the hall
But no one’s seeing the same person at all

It took me years of shifting shape
To realize there is no escape

’Cause to one heart I’m a wildfire
To another, I’m not burning enough
To one mind I’m standing steady
To another, I’m just giving up

Every eye draws a different line
Around this complicated life of mine
No matter what I try to be
They’re gonna see their version of me
Instead of the truth

I’ve been the hero in a story
And the villain in the same breath
One person hears the grace I speak
Another hears the secrets that I keep

I tried to bend, I tried to fit
I sanded every edge down, bit by bit
But every mirror in this world
Has a different way of reflecting it

And somewhere in the noise I found
The only voice that’s solid ground

’Cause to one heart I’m a wildfire
To another, I’m not burning enough
To one mind I’m standing steady
To another, I’m just giving up

Every eye draws a different line
Around this complicated life of mine
No matter what I try to be
They’re gonna see their version of me
Instead of the truth

Then it hit me like a sudden cold
The stories bought, the stories sold
The only version that can stay
Is the one that doesn't walk away

Every soul’s a different lens
Coloring what they believe
They don’t see the life I live
They only see the one they need

So if I’m fire, let me burn
If I’m quiet, let me be
If I’m the thunder in the sky
Let it echo out of me

Every eye draws a different view
That’s a weight I’m finally cutting loose
I’m gonna live the only life that’s true
The only version meant to be...

The one that’s breathing,
inside of me.

I’m gonna live the only life that’s true

The one that’s breathing,
inside of me.