I am stronger; I am wiser.

Sometimes I wonder what I've sewn with this life
How could I be beautiful if I've turned you so ugly inside?

How could I possibly be anything more than the words you say?
How could I be anything more than who you always wanted to save?

You put words in my mouth, and shove them down my throat
Your post-hypnotic suggestions are worse than
Strangling me with rope

You tell me that you love me, and then you beat me down
It's gotten to the point where words are nothing, and all we feel...

Is the pain that surrounds our empty hearts
A fruitless hunger that fed a fire too big...Too small...To start.

And I remember how your embers scalded my skin
But I didn't mind because I knew that you would come back again.

But now you've left me blackened
Broken, Bruised and Disconnected

And even still I'm moving on and finding what you meant...to be...
That night we met, I should've listened to myself, that I was your prey
A person you could influence, and mold for play

Well I know now the price I had to pay
And the candle has melted past the wick

As I close my eyes and say:

I am not the words he has made me believe
But I am what I know, and what I see
And if he's the only person in this world...To hate me...for me...
Then I guess I made the right choice in leaving.

I let my breath go, and my heart is sliced open
Bones cracked and broken, a sacrifice unspoken

A scar just between two breasts that lies as a reminder
That I am everything you're not...

I am stronger; I am wiser.