I NEED TO BELONG TO MYSELF TOO

[Intro: piano, deep breath]

[Verse 1]
I saved my nights for everybody
Kept my mornings open wide
If somebody needed something
I would move myself aside

Then one day I met the silence
And it asked me where I’d been
I had made room for every person
Except the one beneath my skin

[Chorus]
I NEED TO BELONG TO MYSELF TOO
NOT ONLY TO THE ONES I LOVE

I need hours nobody owns
A little sky nobody touches

I can give you all my kindness
Without surrendering my name

I need to be somebody
When nobody calls my name

[Bridge]
Self-love isn’t subtraction
It isn’t taking yours away
It’s remembering I’m a person
I must also choose each day

[Final Chorus]
I NEED TO BELONG TO MYSELF TOO
SO I HAVE SOME SELF TO GIVE

I don’t want to love by vanishing
I want both of us to live

[Outro]
Tonight
I’m keeping me.