Loud Enough

Verse 1

I learned to fold my voice

Small enough to fit your pocket

Every time I tried to speak

You turned the volume down and locked it

Now I'm standing in the kitchen

Watching steam rise off the pan

Wondering how I got so good

At holding back a better plan

Pre-Chorus

And I don't want to be the one who waits

I don't want to smile and call it fate

I don't want to shrink to make you tall

I don't want to be here at all

Chorus

I'm taking back the room I gave away

Every sorry that I never got to say

You can keep the silence you rehearsed

I'm taking back the room

I'm taking back the room

Taking back the room you said was yours

And I'm learning how to hold an open door

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, oh-oh

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Oh-oh, oh-oh

(Mm-hmm)

Verse 2

Mama told me keep the peace

So I built a quiet house

Paper walls and painted smiles

I never let the anger out

But tonight I'm not a daughter

Not a girlfriend not a friend

I'm a person with a heartbeat

Who is done with playing small again

Pre-Chorus

And I don't want to be the one who bends

I don't want to lose myself to keep the ends

I don't want to beg to be believed

I don't want to be what you need

Chorus

I'm taking back the room I gave away

Every sorry that I never got to say

You can keep the silence you rehearsed

I'm taking back the room

I'm taking back the room

Taking back the room you said was yours

And I'm learning how to hold an open door

Bridge

So let me be loud

Let me be wrong

Let me be messy

Let me be strong

Let me be someone who doesn't look back

Let me be all of the things that I lack

Chorus

I'm taking back the room I gave away

Every sorry that I never got to say

You can keep the silence you rehearsed

I'm taking back the room

I'm taking back the room

Taking back the room you said was yours

And I'm learning how to hold an open door

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, oh-oh

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)

I'm taking back the room

(Taking back the room)

Mm-hmm