BORN WHERE I DON’T BELONG

Описание: You look at me like I’m a sickness
Like I crawled up from the dirt
Your house smells like permission
Mine smells like getting hurt
You say love’s a kind of contract
Signed with names I’ll never wear
You don’t hear her crying softly
When you pull her from the stair

Your rules are dressed in silence
Your smiles are sharp and worn
I don’t get a fair confession
When I’m born where I’m born

I wasn’t born with clean hands
Or a name you’d ever trust
I was born to want your daughter
While you bury me in dust
You say you’re saving her future
Like I’m something she’ll outgrow
I wasn’t born to fit your world
I was born where I don’t belong

You talk about what’s proper
Like you own her breath and skin
You call it protection
I call it locking her in
You measure love in last names
In doors I can’t walk through
But you don’t see the damage
In the things you make her choose

You say I’ll ruin everything
Like that’s something new
Funny how destruction
Only counts when it’s not you

I wasn’t born with clean hands
Or a name you’d ever trust
I was born to want your daughter
While you bury me in dust
You say you’re saving her future
Like I’m something she’ll outgrow
I wasn’t born to fit your world
I was born where I don’t belong

If love’s just blood and paperwork
Then tell me what she feels
Why her hands are always shaking
When she hears your heels
You don’t need chains or violence
You’ve perfected control
You just take her piece by piece
Till there’s nothing left to hold

I wasn’t born with clean hands
Or a voice you’d ever hear
I was born to love your daughter
While you drown me in your fear
If you tear us apart slowly
Call it right, call it law
Just don’t say you did it for her
When you never saw us at all

You can take her far from me
Change her name, rewrite her song
But you’ll never kill the truth
I loved her
I just wasn’t born where I belong