You Are Your Karma

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA

Verse 1

I thought a parent was supposed to be

The place you run when you're afraid

But you were the reason I learned fear

The reason love became a price I paid

You made me feel worthless

You made me feel small

A house full of people

Still felt empty through it all

I carried your damage

Into every love I knew

And I was terrified

I'd grow up to become you

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Pre-Chorus

But I'm not that child anymore

Though they still scream inside

I found them.

I held them.

And I kept them alive.

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CHORUS

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

Every bridge you burned

Came crashing down around you

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

You pushed us all away

Now there's nobody around you

FUCK YOU!

I'M NOT THAT CHILD ANYMORE!

I became the arms they needed—

AND I'LL NEVER FUCKING BE YOU!

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Verse 2

All I wanted was a parent

Someone who would make me safe

Instead, I learned to raise myself

While you took and took and took

You controlled everything

But control doesn't make you strong

Now you're alone and reaching back

For the family you pushed away

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EMOTIONAL BRIDGE – stripped down

There was a child

Standing at your door

Waiting for you to love them

Waiting to be enough

Thinking if they stayed quiet

Maybe you would stay

Thinking if they were better

You wouldn't turn away

But they were never broken...

YOU BROKE THEM.

They were never worthless...

YOU JUST MADE THEM BELIEVE IT.

And for so many years

They kept asking me—

"Why didn't my parent love me?"

And I finally know the answer...

IT WAS NEVER BECAUSE OF THEM.

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BUILD – drums slowly return

So come here...

I've got you.

You don't have to earn love.

You don't have to be afraid.

You don't have to go back.

I'M YOUR HOME NOW.

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BREAKDOWN

You wanted control?

LOOK AT YOU NOW!

You wanted power?

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?!

You stomped on us!

WE STOOD UP!

You pushed us out!

NOW WHO'S SHUT OUT?!

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FINAL CHORUS

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

You broke the hands

You're begging now to hold you

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

You made your own loneliness—

NOW IT FUCKING OWNS YOU!

I'm not that child anymore.

They still live inside of me...

But they don't need you.

THEY HAVE ME.

YOU ARE YOUR KARMA!

And I will never...

EVER...

BE YOU.