Forgotten Key
I’ve been living behind a face… Long enough to forget my own…
Built these walls to keep me safe… Now I don’t know how
to go home… Every mirror knew my name… But none of them
could see my soul…
Twenty steps ahead of every day
Playing chess with every move I’d make
A perfect smile, a steady hand
A stranger wearing my own face
Brick by brick I built these walls
Calling silence safety all along
The mask I wore became my skin
I forgot where I had been
Every laugh rehearsed before it landed
Every word measured twice
Every room another stage to stand in
Every heart behind disguise
I blamed the names they handed me
Searching for the missing piece
Looking everywhere but inward
Where the truth was waiting patiently
It was a scream I couldn’t voice
A thousand chances, one small choice
Every road led back again
To the prison built within
And now I see it all so clear This heavy mask I
thought I wore It wasn’t hiding any fear It was the lock
upon the door
Every chain I thought I’d found Was one my own two hands
had forged I spent so long afraid to leave I never reached
beyond the door
I was my own saboteur
Building castles made of fear
Holding tightly to survival
Long after danger disappeared
I wasn’t broken from the start
Just protecting a fragile heart
Somewhere underneath the armor
The child I was still left his mark
I spent my life outrunning shadows
Learning every way to hide
Built a home inside the silence Forgot what felt alive I carried
every fear like armor
Every scar became my skin
Until I faced the quiet… I was the one who locked me
in… I just forgot to turn the key…
Now I see it all so clear This heavy mask I thought
I wore It wasn’t hiding any fear It was the lock upon
the door I was the one who locked me in I just
forgot to turn the key
Every step I take from here Unlocks another part of me The
walls don’t get the final word The fear no longer speaks for
me The door was always waiting there… I just forgot to turn
the key…
I’m finally coming home