Safe Place

Written and Produced by Veronika Hellfire Photo Inspired by Veronika Hellfire & Clarke Voice is Veronika Hellfire Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe ~ all support appreciated Lyrics; [Verse 1] I learned to sleep with one eye open Keep my keys between my fingers Made a home of locked doors And called the fear a kind of wisdom You never asked me to be smaller Never reached to rearrange me You sat beside the wreckage Like it wasn't yours to fear [Pre-Chorus] You don't have to mend the places I kept hidden from the sun You just stay while I remember I don't have to outrun [Chorus] I didn't need you to save me I needed somewhere safe to lay it down All the years I held the doorway All the nights I wouldn't make a sound You don't gather up my pieces Just to shape them into someone new You let the sharp parts rest between us And my scars know what your scars went through [Verse 2] Your hands are steady, never claiming Your quiet leaves me room to breathe I can set my armor by the window And let the morning find me there No promise that I'm never breaking No demand to call it healed You meet the truth without flinching And make the hard ground feel less real [Pre-Chorus] You don't have to mend the places I kept hidden from the sun You just stay while I remember I don't have to outrun [Chorus] I didn't need you to save me I needed somewhere safe to lay it down All the years I held the doorway All the nights I wouldn't make a sound You don't gather up my pieces Just to shape them into someone new You let the sharp parts rest between us And my scars know what your scars went through [Bridge] I was strong because I had to be Steel stitched tight beneath my skin But here I don't have to prove it You let the softer part come in Not conquered, not corrected Not rescued from the life I knew Just held without a question By the gentleness in you [Final Chorus] I didn't need you to save me I needed somewhere safe to lay it down All the years I held the doorway All the nights I wouldn't make a sound You don't gather up my pieces You don't ask me to be new You let the sharp parts rest between us And I can finally rest with you [Outro] With you, I can finally be soft.