Burned Roots

You taught me silence had a shape

A door half-closed, a clean escape

I learned to read the room too young

To bite my words and hold my tongue

Daddy issues, written in my blood

I keep reaching for the distant ones

Daddy issues, but I know the truth

I was never hard to love,

I just learned it from you (ooh,

yeah)

I wear your shadow

like a chain

Turn every kiss

into a test of pain

If he goes quiet,

I chase the sound

Build him a throne,

then burn it down

No more begging at the locked-up gate

No more calling absence fate

I can want you and still let go

I can be fire on my own

Daddy issues, fading from my blood

I stop reaching for the distant ones

Daddy issues, now I know the truth

I was never hard to love,

I just had to learn it from you (learn it from you)

I take my heart and take it back (take it back)