This Is My Name

[Verse 1]
I know the cracks along the kitchen tile
The morning face that takes a little while
I know the plans I never carried through
The small unfinished parts I call my truth

I used to measure every breath I took
Against a life imagined in a book
But every borrowed shape fell off my skin
And left the person underneath to begin

[Pre-Chorus]
I don't have to win the day
To deserve the room I'm in
I can let the old rules fade
And still call this living

[Chorus]
I am the hands that made mistakes
The bent-down nails, the clean-up days
I am the road I chose and changed
The yes, the no, the in-between

I don't need a different name
To make this heart a safer place
I can meet myself halfway
And let this life be mine

[Verse 2]
The rent is due, the laundry waits in piles
A neighbor's radio leaks through the walls
I miss the mark, then laugh at how it sounds
When I stop turning every loss around

There are some doors I never learned to close
Some old replies that still arrive too slow
But I can hold the child who needed proof
And say, you made it here; that counts as truth

[Pre-Chorus]
I don't have to fix the past
To stand steady in the present
What I carry, what I lack
Both belong inside the sentence

[Chorus]
I am the hands that made mistakes
The bent-down nails, the clean-up days
I am the road I chose and changed
The yes, the no, the in-between

I don't need a different name
To make this heart a safer place
I can meet myself halfway
And let this life be mine

[Bridge]
Leave the window open wide
Let the ordinary in
The chipped blue mug, the late reply
The crooked grin beneath my skin

If tomorrow asks for more
I'll give what I can give
Not a perfect version
Just a life I get to live

[Final Chorus]
I am the hands that made mistakes
The bent-down nails, the clean-up days
I am the road I chose and changed
The yes, the no, the in-between

I don't need a different name
To make this heart a safer place
I can meet myself halfway
And let this life be mine

[Outro]
This is my name in my own voice
This is my life, and I choose it
This is my name in my own voice
I choose it, I choose it