I was sitting there, on my bed, swirling these thoughts around in my head about getting hurt.

I realized I have been hurt so many times by people — more times than multiplication tables can count themselves, I feel like — and so now I have this great fear that it'll happen again. I am just constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.

But you can't live life that way.

So...

I made an anthem, in the form of song.

I'll open up my heart the way I open new doors, I'll tell you all my secrets and I'd love to hear yours. To each and every angel, I kiss songs of the sun. I like to give myself to each and every single one.

I don't care if my heart breaks, that's just something that I take, hurt me, burn me, then you don't deserve me,

And I'll put the pieces back together,

This one heart is here to stay

Chorus: I know it's going to hurt, I know it's gonna sting. But for those precious moments when we're laughing bout everything, it's a risk I'm willing to take. I know it's gonna burn, I know I'm gonna bleed. But the armor that I've strapped on yeah I got all I need, I have all I need in me. I'm not a machine, I love to feel every everything— and before you can emerge so strong before you find that perfect song, you gotta let yourself break. Break, break, break, baby break. Break everything.

So I'm broken. Yeah, I'm reeling. So I've spoken, all that I'm feeling. And you don't see the same thing I do, you're that heart that closes off to, being loved and loving someone, who just might love you more than you would, I know you're terrified. But so am I.

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Everyone tells me I should have my guard up, but having my guard up, I miss out on real love. I want it raw, I want it sweet, I wanna show, every bit, inch of me. What's the fun in hiding myself, when I already know who I am? Even if my heart gets tossed around, at the end of the day, I reel it back my way, and I dust it off and it's new and perfect. Yeah, I love who I am. Sharing myself and then bringing it back, oh yeah.

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