Monarch

I feel the same

No different than before

There was a time when what you thought of me once mattered

I put weight behind your words

Then something snapped

Deep down inside me

Tectonic shifts aligning

Soft image into focus

Snapped fingers break hypnosis

Light through the crack and then

Everything went black

I am not the person you remember from before

The one you patronized and stepped on

The one you hurt

I have pulled the arrows now my skin has become stone

No longer am I prisoner to your empty fucking words

I carried every single word you said

They stacked up high, they weighed me down

But underneath it all, I didn't notice

I was growing strong somehow

Lean backward through an open window

Nothing left can save me now

I hear the cry of the approaching sirens

Right as I countdown

Then something snapped

A lightbulb moment

Like sighting land from ocean

Pure water in the desert

A thirst that can't measured

The first breath of a child

Released into the wild

I am not the person you remember from before

The one you patronized and stepped on the one you hurt

I have pulled the arrows now my skin has become stone

No longer am I prisoner to your empty fucking words

Your pain is an open secret

It spills with every breath

And this game that you played is over now

And gone are the days I was helpless and afraid

Gone are the walls that kept me in

Yeah I

I'm not the person

That you remember from before

Yeah I

I'm not the person

That you remember from before

Yeah I

I'm not the person

That you remember from before

That you remember

That you remember

Do you remember?

Do you remember?