Doing The Right Thing Is Scary - Lyrics

Lyrics: Verse 1 Tomorrow there’ll be questions I never wanted asked. Dates and names and memories from a life I barely passed. They’ll ask me how it happened, when everything went wrong. And part of me wants to disappear before the day has even come. But I don’t have to be fearless. I don’t have to be okay. I only have to breathe enough to say what I can say. Pre-Chorus Feet upon the floor. Someone safe beside me. I’m here in this room. That was then. This is now. Chorus Trying to do the right thing can be scary. Telling the truth can still hurt like hell. I can shake. I can cry. I can stop for a while. I don’t have to tell it perfectly to tell it well. Trying to do the right thing can be scary. But scared doesn’t mean I have to run. One question. One answer. One breath at a time. I don’t have to face everything at once. I only have to tell the truth. And then— I get to leave the room. Verse 2 There’s a part of me that wants to live. There’s a part that guards the door. It remembers what it cost me when I couldn’t take much more. So I won’t fight that frightened part or drag her through the pain. I’ll tell her, “You can sit beside me. We’re not back there again.” I don’t need every detail. I don’t need the perfect words. If my mind goes blank, I’ll tell them that. That deserves to still be heard. Pre-Chorus Look around the room. Feel the chair beneath me. Someone knows where I am. That was then. This is now. Chorus Trying to do the right thing can be scary. Telling the truth can still hurt like hell. I can shake. I can cry. I can stop for a while. I don’t have to tell it perfectly to tell it well. Trying to do the right thing can be scary. But scared doesn’t mean I have to run. One question. One answer. One breath at a time. I don’t have to face everything at once. I only have to tell the truth. And then— I get to leave the room. Bridge I am not walking back into that workplace. I am sitting in a hospital talking about the past. There is a door beside me. There are people I can call. And if the memories get too heavy— I don’t have to carry them all. One question. One answer. One breath. One break. No one gets to demand more than I can safely take. I’m not on trial. I’m not back there. I’m alive. I’m here. And maybe courage isn’t feeling nothing. Maybe courage is feeling everything and staying anyway. Final Chorus Trying to do the right thing can be scary. Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel every bit of it. But I can cry. I can stop. I can say, “I need a minute.” And that doesn’t mean I couldn’t handle it. Trying to do the right thing can be scary. But I know where I am now. I survived the darkest night. I came back somehow. And when that interview is over, I will walk back through that door. Still breathing. Still living. Still mine— maybe even more. I only have to tell the truth. I don’t have to win. I just have to come home to myself when it ends. Outro That was then. This is now. Feet on the floor. Look around. I’m here. I’m alive. Trying to do the right thing can be scary. I can still do it scared.