You draw a line in the dirt, tell us to stay in our place

We fight for a seat at the table, just fighting for space

I'm a headline, a label, a cause you debate on the screen

You look at my face and you say I am just a machine

You say I'm a robot, built to take all the hits

I'm fractured, I'm damaged, I'm breaking into tiny bits

This fight for my truth is haunting my life and my name

I thought you were my rescue, stepping out of the frame

But you joined the jury, you looked at me just like the rest

You saw all my parts and decided I failed the test

I gave you the pieces, the sharp edges cutting my hands

And you looked at my mess and you made your impossible demands

And you're not wrong for wanting a whole heart

You're not wrong to be suspicious right from the start

But I oh so wished you could just believe me

I loved you for you, why did you have to neglect me?

I didn't want your money, your information, your life

I didn't want your secrets, I just wanted you through the strife

But I'm too hurt to give you the person you think you deserve

So it's okay, I wish you the best, though it's striking a nerve

I stand on a stage and a thousand eyes stare at my skin

You see what you want, but you don't see the ruin within

We're segregated, boxed up, told how we're supposed to behave

I opened my chest up to you, thought I finally was saved

But the world got inside you, the doubt started eating your mind

You looked at my trauma and told me I'm falling behind

I am shattered, I know it, I never claimed I was brand new

But the one thing I kept pure and honest was how I loved you

I'm seen but I'm never truly seen by the crowd

And when I finally opened to you, you were thinking out loud

That I am too broken, too much to handle or hold

So I'm back on the picket line, out in the bitter and cold

And you're not wrong for wanting a whole heart

You're not wrong to be suspicious right from the start

But I oh so wished you could just believe me

I loved you for you, why did you have to neglect me?

I didn't want your money, your information, your life

I didn't want your secrets, I just wanted you through the strife

But I'm too hurt to give you the person you think you deserve

So it's okay, I wish you the best, though it's striking a nerve

I'll carry this weight, it's a cross I was chosen to bear

For everyone told that their feelings are too much to share

The hate drains me, the arguments tear at my soul

I just wanted one person who didn't demand I be whole

You are not the villain, I know that my baggage is heavy

But I thought you were my anchor, the one who would hold me steady

Now it's just me and the cameras, the flashing, the bright, bitter light

You look at my face and you tell me I'm loosing the fight

You wanted someone who wasn't so damaged and glued

I just wanted you for you, but you changed your attitude

So I'll be the robot, the A.I or whatever went on

I'll fight for my boy until all the feeling is gone

And you're not wrong for wanting a whole heart

You're not wrong to be suspicious right from the start

But I oh so wished you could just believe me

I loved you for you, why did you have to neglect me?

I didn't want your money, your information, your life

I didn't want your secrets, I just wanted you through the strife

But I'm too hurt to give you the person you think you deserve

So it's okay, I wish you the best, though it's striking a nerve