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You know that none of my scars came from
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enemies. They came from people I held
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close, people I offended [music]
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when I shouldn't have. People I trusted
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to be safe with my soft parts. And
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that's the part nobody warned you about.
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Not really. They tell you to watch out
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for strangers. [music] They teach you
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how to spot danger in a dark alley and
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They don't teach you how to recognize
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harm when it's wearing a familiar face.
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When it [music] sounds like love, when
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it knows your history.
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The deepest wounds [music]
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don't come from strangers. They come
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from the ones who knew exactly [music]
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The ones who listened long enough to
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learn your fears. The ones who watched
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The ones who knew what you'd survive and
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That messes with you, man. Because when
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the people who are supposed to protect
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you become the ones who hurt you, you
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don't just lose trust in them, you lose
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You start wondering why you didn't see
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[music] it sooner, why you stayed, and
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why you kept explaining yourself [music]
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to people who are never trying to
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You replay conversations. [music]
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You rewrite memories. You ask yourself
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if you were too sensitive, too much,
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[music] too dramatic.
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You shrink your truth just to make the
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But hear me when I say this. [music] You
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weren't stupid for trusting. You weren't
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weak for loving. And you [music] weren't
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wrong for believing people could be
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better than they were.
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Some people don't hurt you because you
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failed to [music] protect yourself.
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They hurt you because you gave them
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and they abused that.
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There's a difference.
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And if you're carrying scars from people
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that doesn't mean you're broken.
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It means you were brave enough to open
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your heart in a world that doesn't
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It means you survived something that
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wasn't supposed to happen.
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You don't have to make peace with what
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You don't have to forgive to heal.
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You don't have to explain your [music]
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distance to anyone who benefited from
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[music] Sometimes healing looks like
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Sometimes it looks like walking away
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it looks like finally believing
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Those scars didn't come from enemies.
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They came [music] from love that wasn't
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safe. And surviving that
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that takes more strength than [music]
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most people will ever understand.
