[Intro] I used to think life was happening to me. Turns out… …it was waiting for me to fucken answer. [Verse 1] Didn’t wake up one fucking morning, knowing who I’d become Didn’t ask for this weight or the fucken miles I’d have to run Didn’t choose the nights my own head wouldn’t let me sleep Or the promises I made that I could barely keep Life kept laying bricks while I tried to build a fucking door Every answer just left more questions on the fucking floor I thought I was chasing something I couldn’t see… Till I realised it was growing inside me. [Pre-Chorus] Kept screaming “Why fucken me?” Till the question changed. Maybe it wasn’t asking me to suffer… Maybe it was asking me to fucking build. [Chorus] I didn’t pick this fucking life… It picked me. Every scar became another piece of me. Every weight became another place to fucking stand. Every broken promise shaped these hands. Then I heard a fucking voice that sounded like mine Saying you don’t find purpose… You grow the fuck into it. This life chose me… Now I choose it every fucking time. [Verse 2] Kids in the house, chaos in the walls Thought I was the reason everything would fucking fall Every time they asked “Are you angry, Dad?” I heard failure when they were calling me back Spent years fighting the name they’d already fuken seen Trying to outrun someone I’d already been Till I stopped running, turned around and saw It wasn’t an insult… It was a fucking call [Pre-Chorus 2] Every room in The Hollow still echoed my name I stopped trying to silence them Started asking what job they had to do [Bridge] Anger wasn’t destroying me — it was asking to build Fear wasn’t stopping me — it was asking to prepare Shame wasn’t burying me — it was asking to be seen The noise was never noise It was a harmony waiting for a fucking voice (everything drops — just heartbeat) I finally included myself… …in my own fucking life. [Final Chorus] I didn’t pick this life… it picked me Every step was teaching me how to see Every choice, every loss, every door, every cost Was another room already waiting inside of me This wasn’t fate, wasn’t luck, wasn’t punishment This was practice This life chose me… And now I choose it too. [Outro] I’ll carry the light Till someone else can carry mine Long after I’m fucking gone.
