Testo Before You Press Play - Queen Butterfly
Testo della canzone Before You Press Play (Queen Butterfly), tratta dall'album Before You Press Play
I know you're listening
You might not admit it
You might laugh about it
You might tell people you don't care
But you're here
And before this goes any further
I want something understood
I didn't start writing songs to start a war with anybody
I didn't start this to embarrass nobody
I didn't start this to drag names through the mud
I started writing because I was hurting
Because I was healing
Because I had things inside me
That were eating me alive
And music was the only place
I knew how to put them down
These songs were for me
For my growth
For my healing
For my journey
But then y'all saw it getting attention
And instead of letting me heal
Instead of letting me grow
Instead of being honest about what really happened
Y'all started running your mouths
And the part that still gets me
Is every single one of y'all knows the truth
You know my heart
You know what I stood for
You know I wasn't wrong
For calling out fake love
Fake loyalty
And people smiling in faces
While tearing them apart behind closed doors
Y'all tried to make me feel crazy
For not being okay with two-faced behavior
Y'all tried to convince me
That disrespect was normal
That betrayal was normal
That being fake was just how people are
But I don't operate like that
I wanted people to love each other
I wanted people to respect each other
I wanted people to stop playing nice
While privately destroying each other
And when I pointed it out
Y'all got mad
Not because I lied
Because I didn't
And yeah, I got mean
I'll own that
I got mean after I tried being nice
I got mean after nice got me walked on
After nice got ignored
After nice got laughed at
After y'all poked and poked and poked
Until I finally snapped
And when I showed you the monster
You helped create
Suddenly everybody wanted to act shocked
But don't poke somebody for years
Then cry about the teeth
I regret some of the things I said
I regret how ugly it got
I regret the damage that can't be undone
But I do not regret telling the truth
Nothing I said was built on a lie
Nothing I felt was fake
And deep down
Whether you admit it out loud or not
You know that
I lost somebody I loved in all this
I lost a real family member
Because lies got louder than love
Because people believed stories
That should've never been told that way
Because pride mattered more than truth
And that pain is something
I don't think y'all will ever fully understand
I watched genuine people get hurt
I watched people turn cold
I watched people choose sides
Without ever looking in the mirror
And somehow
Somehow y'all still walk around
Like what you did was okay
But this is where I stop carrying it
I forgive you
Not because you earned it
Not because you apologized
Not because you took accountability
I forgive you
Because I deserve peace
I hope you grow up
I hope one day the truth gets loud enough
Inside your own chest
That you can't keep running from it
I hope you heal from needing a villain
I hope you heal from rewriting stories
I hope you heal from calling cruelty loyalty
And I hope one day
You understand
That I was never trying to destroy anybody
I was trying to survive
So before you press play
Understand this
This album ain't me begging for love
It ain't me asking for friendship
It ain't me trying to restart a fight
This is me closing the door
With my head up
My hands clean
And my truth still standing
I forgive you
But I'll never forget
What it took
To survive you
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