Without You

Baby You said I'd crumble like a castle of sand
Told me my world would fall without your hand
But here I stand
Breathing
Living
Unplanned

I’m walking streets you said I’d never find
With my own shadow
Not yours
Behind
Without you
 Girl I’m still moving
Still alive
Without you
I’m still learning how to thrive
I’m not nobody
Not a ghost in the rain
Without you
Baby I’ve got everything to gain

Girl I called you once
Maybe twice
Maybe ten
Thought I’d need your voice to feel whole again
But my echoes answered
I found my zen

Baby You said I couldn’t
But look at me now
I’m not just surviving
I’m soaring somehow
Your words were chains
But I’ve broken free
I’m more than the “nobody” you thought I’d be
Baby 
You said I'd crumble
I'd fade in the dark
That without you
I'd lose my spark
You left me broken
A shadow
A haze
Too small to climb out of those heavy days

Girl
look at me now
Stronger than before
I built wings from the pieces you tore
I call sometimes
Yeah
Caught in the pain
But I know I'm more than your leaving chain


I'm nobody to you
But I’m somebody to me
Standing tall where you said I couldn’t be
I begged
I pleaded
Then I lit my own fire
Turned the ashes of ‘us’ into my own desire


You said I couldn't get up off my knees
That I'd drown in forgotten memories
Still
I hear your laugh
That haunting sound
But I’m running on roads you never found


Living without you isn't what I planned
But I’ve learned to write lines with my own hand
Called you last night just to hear no reply
Still
I’m living instead of asking why


Baby I'm nobody to you
But I’m somebody to me
Standing tall where you said I couldn’t be
I begged
I pleaded
Then I lit my own fire
Turned the ashes of ‘us’ into my own desire
Girl Without you
I’m still moving
Still alive
Without you
I’m still learning how to thrive
I’m not nobody
Not a ghost in the rain
Without you
 Baby I’ve got everything to gain

Whiskey Rebellion Blues, dirty South rap infused with Midwest trap house rythmic rhyme and 808s, male