Unknown Artist - Years of Trauma

Verse 1

I was seven when the house went quiet

Learned to read the room before I spoke

Every slammed door left a mark behind it

And every apology was just a joke

Pre-Chorus

So I built my walls from all the things they said

Turned their hurt into a hardened skin

I carried every word inside my head

And never let a single stranger in

Chorus

Years of trauma running through my veins

Years of trauma falling down like rain

I don't want to be the girl I made

Years of trauma don't get washed away

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Don't get washed away

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Don't get washed away

Verse 2

Now I'm older and I'm learning slow

That the silence isn't always mine to keep

Some nights the memories come and go

Some nights I just lie awake and weep

Pre-Chorus

But I'm stitching up the places they cut through

One thread at a time I start to mend

Letting go of everything I knew

Finding out that this is not the end

Chorus

Years of trauma running through my veins

Years of trauma falling down like rain

I don't want to be the girl I made

Years of trauma don't get washed away

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Don't get washed away

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Bridge

Oh I am more than what they handed me

More than every bruise and every scar

Someday I will stand and finally be free

Someday I will know just who we are

Chorus

Years of trauma running through my veins

Years of trauma falling down like rain

I don't want to be the girl I made

Years of trauma don't get washed away

Post-Chorus

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Don't get washed away

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

I'm still here today