UNLOVEABLE

Verse 1

I grew up learning how to disappear,

To hide my heart, to hide my tears.

I watched other children being held so tight,

While I was learning how to survive the night.

I spent years believing something must be wrong,

Why else would love feel like a place where I don’t belong?

Pre-Chorus

And even now, as a grown-up woman,

There’s still a little girl inside of me,

Asking the same old question:

Chorus

Am I unloveable?

Is there something broken deep inside of me?

If the people who brought me into this world

Couldn’t give the love I desperately needed,

Why should anybody else stay?

Why would anybody choose me?

Tell me, am I unloveable?

Or have I just been carrying someone else’s pain?

Verse 2

I’ve built my walls so high and strong,

Convinced myself that I could make it all alone.

But every time somebody gets too close,

I hear that voice inside me whisper:

“Don’t trust it. They’ll leave, just like before.”

So I push away the things I want the most.

Pre-Chorus

But deep inside I’m still that child,

Standing in the doorway, waiting to be seen.

Waiting for someone to say:

“You were never too much. You were never not enough.”

Chorus

Am I unloveable?

Or did I only learn to see myself that way?

Because children believe what they’re given,

And I was given silence instead of safety.

Bridge

My mother couldn’t love me,

At least not in the way a child needs.

And for so many years,

I believed that had to mean something was wrong with me.

But maybe it was never me.

Maybe I was never unloveable.

Maybe I was just a child,

Searching for love

In a place where it could never be found.

Final Chorus

No, I’m not unloveable.

I’m just learning, after all these years,

That my worth was never defined

By the love I didn’t receive.

And although the scars still speak sometimes,

I won’t let them tell my story anymore.

Because I am still here.

Still standing.

Still loving.

And that alone proves

I was always loveable.