It’s all become one big painful lesson
About the need to feed your own self-esteem
Because when love is your most prized possession
You can lose too much of your identity

I began to feel I was nothing without you
And let myself believe that’s what love was
But now there’s little for me to go back to
When you decided to break us up

It was a risk I didn’t know I was taking
I just thought of it all as love
But my bonds with myself were breaking
Because I didn’t value myself enough
It’s been so many years of my having feelings for you
So many years of you as my reality
That who I am now’s a puzzle I’m working through
Because I feel closer to you than me

I need to think through my honest beliefs
Now that what you want isn’t important
I need to open up things inside me
That for so many years I let go dormant

I need to walk paths of just my own choosing
Without the feeling of you by my side
I need to recover all that I’ve been losing
By not fully embracing my individual pride

It was a risk I didn’t know I was taking
I just thought of it all as love
But my bonds with myself were breaking
Because I didn’t value my individuality enough
It’s been so many years of my having feelings for you
So many years of you as my reality
That who I am now’s a puzzle I’m working through
Because I feel closer to you than me


My first step is this honest acceptance
That I need to pursue who I didn’t let myself be
But I need to stay realistic about that process
Because I still feel closer to you than me

It was a risk I didn’t know I was taking
I just thought of it all as love
But my bonds with myself were breaking
Because I didn’t value my individuality enough
It’s been so many years of my having feelings for you
So many years of you as my reality
That who I am now’s a puzzle I’m working through
Because I feel closer to you than me