[Lyric] Here on My Own (Rachel Dean & David Brush)

[MAN 2, spoken]
Yeah, I got your letters

(sung)
"I'm sorry," was what it said
"I was scared," is what I read
Seven letters to end all the things that we shared

"I'm sorry," all it said
"I was scared," is what I read
And that was it, finished, over, done

An ending I couldn't repair
But the end of us doesn't mean the end of me

(spoken)
Do you have any idea what happened to us? To mom, to me?

[MAN 1, spoken]
I was not in a good place. I needed to take care of what I--
[MAN 2, sung]
I thought it was hopeless, I thought I blew it
The world I had known was gone as I knеw it
But I'm stronger than that
And I have survived on my own

I thought I was dying and livеd life regretting
The sun in my sky had faded to setting
But you can't have that
I've made it just fine on my own
On my own

So live your life like I never even mattered
If I can't wake each day wondering how it's my fault I'm alone
Live your life like my world never shattered
'Cause you weren't there
And I don't care
I'm better, I swear, on my own

(spoken)
I was eight years old. Who does that to an eight year old?

[MAN 1, spoken]
I was doing the best I could. The best I knew how

[MAN 2, sung]
I thought I would harbor a sea of resentment
When one man destroys all I once called contentment
But that was before I knew I was fine on my own
I thought I could drink all the hurt left behind
Try to forget all the you clogging up my mind
But I know that now I found myself here on my own
On my own

So live your life like my world never stopped turning
That eight year old kid's now a man you don't know
Live your life as if my mine were not burning
'Cause you weren't there
And I don't even care
I'm better, I swear, on my own

[MAN 1, sung]
All I know to say
Is I'm sorry for the way

[MAN 2, sung]
You should have known better

So I'll go on with a new strength discovered
The me I found on the backside of shame
So live your life and I will live mine
Unafraid of myself, my heart off the shelf
And my own

So thank you for all the pain
I'm proud of what has remained
Finally better off here on my own