Alche No13 - The Dark Side Of Me

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Hand-me-down winters in secondhand skin
Stitched up silence, safety pins
Counting coins for cafeteria shame
While they laughed like I was a game

Their logos bright, their futures clean
I wore hunger you couldn’t see
Dust in my shoes, cracks in my pride
But I learned to live inside

You thought I was nothing
Because I had nothing to show
But I was building a kingdom
In places you’d never go

There’s a dark side of me
You helped create
Every sneer, every locked gate
You fed the fire you tried to drown
Now it’s the only thing I’ve found

You dressed in gold, I dressed in scars
You reached for applause, I reached for stars
You never saw what I could be
Now you fear the dark side of me

Nice clothes were a fairy tale
Luxury stitched into detail
I learned the language of being less
Of shrinking small in every dress

Judged by faces soft and fed
By boys whose fathers paved ahead
They measured worth by what you wore
I measured mine by something more

Books were cheaper than their pride
So I sharpened what I had inside
While they performed, I memorized
Every weakness in their eyes

You thought I was broken
Because I bent in the wind
But pressure makes diamonds
And monsters are made from within

There’s a dark side of me
Cold and awake
Built from every word you’d take
Every time you said I’d fail
Every joke, every detail

You had comfort, I had doubt
You had numbers, I figured it out
You never saw what I could be
Now you fear the dark side of me

I know how it feels to be less
To be the punchline, the mess
To want to unzip your own skin
And step out cleaner than you’ve been

You gave me shame
I turned it into sight
You gave me shadows
I learned to use the night

Poor.
Ugly.
Wrong.
Weak.

You said it so long
I made it strong.

There’s a dark side of me
And it’s precise
It remembers every price
Every hallway, every stare
Every whispered little prayer

You had everything for free
But knowledge belonged to me
You built your world on what you see
I built mine in secrecy

You created what I’d be.
Now you answer
To the dark side of me.