The first voice I knew was a slammed door hymn

“Little girl, you don’t speak till I let you begin”

He built me a cage with a key made of guilt

Every “I love you” was a blade being built

I learned that my skin was a lease, not a home

That silence was safer than picking a bone

Now I sit in a room with a stranger’s soft eyes

And I say all the names that I’ve buried in lies

I wanna peel every chapter, burn every regret

I wanna be the woman who doesn’t look back yet

Forget – forget – forget – forget –

Let the past dissolve like a cigarette

I’m not your daughter, not their toy – just forget

Forget – forget – forget –

He put his rage in a bottle, I called it romance

Danced with the fist that would later slow-dance

“You’re lucky I want you,” they’d whisper like prayer

Woke up on tile floors with my teeth in my hair

I performed a small death behind every locked door

Let them write their names on my ribs – then I’d ask for more

Now I sit in a room with a box of old triggers

And I tell her the truth – my voice doesn’t flicker

I wanna peel every chapter, burn every regret

I wanna be the woman who doesn’t look back yet

Forget – forget – forget – forget –

Let the past dissolve like a cigarette

I’m not your daughter, not their toy – just forget

Forget – forget – forget –

Therapy is a shovel in a graveyard at midnight

You dig up the man who taught you that tenderness frightens

And you look at his ghost and you laugh for the first time

Because shame was his language – and silence was his crime

I wanna peel every chapter, burn every regret

I wanna be the woman who doesn’t look back yet

Forget – forget – forget – forget –

Let the past dissolve like a cigarette

I’m not your daughter, not their toy – just forget

Forget