Pre-Chorus Mirrors promise answers in silvered frames, but I keep missing the moment to see. I line up my smile with practiced aim— wearing the parts that belong to me.

Final Chorus (expanded) This is me: not flawless, not complete, a river that learns how to bend and meet the sea that waits, patient and deep— I am arriving, I will keep. Pieces stitched by a thousand tiny hands, memories braided like ribbon and thread. I step forward—one foot, then another— I speak my name, and make it mine instead.

Below is the chronicle based on that assumption. Verse 1 I wake to the small light by my window, a ribbon of dawn trailing through glass. Yesterday’s echoes still cling to the floor— a map of footsteps that won’t let me pass. I trace the curve of a name on my palm, letters fading like chalk in the rain. A quiet alarm in my chest keeps time, counting the reasons I remain.

Chorus This is me: a half-remembered song, a compass spun wild from wrong to right. I’m learning how to breathe when the world is loud, how to hold my ground in the night. Pieces stitched by a thousand tiny hands, I’m more than the sum of what they said. I’ll step forward—one foot, then another— and name myself, and be my own thread.