Not Your Story Lyrics

Passed around from home to home

A complicated and heavy tome

Called nothing special with no words to say

Worth only my picture and how much I weigh

I pulled your heart, you misunderstood

Now my ink bleeds like it damn well should

Countless memories of my broken heart

Been abused torn and ripped apart

And I'm built from the things that broke me

Although well-read tattered and torn

Hidden lines within my pages

Secrets hidden since I was born

And you're shocked by the revelations

Held together by pieces of twine

I've built strength from every shelving

This is not your story

But mine

Of course you know how the story ends

With just one little glance at the cover

No award or special featurette

Yet a diamond to be discovered

You think you read me like a library book

But you don't bother to take a second look

Silently just waiting in the pile

My love that's hidden broken n bent with denial

And I'm built from the things that broke me

Although well-read tattered and torn

Hidden lines within my pages

Secrets hidden since I was born

And you're shocked by the revelations

Held together by pieces of twine

I've built strength from every shelving

This is not your story

I'm gonna re-write my pages in my library book

Take back my name and the love you took

Damn your lies and damn my broken heart

This is not how this ends but how it starts

And I'm built from the things

And I'm built from the things

And I'm built from the things

And I'm built from the things that broke me

Although well-read tattered and torn

Hidden lines within my pages

Secrets hidden since I was born

And you're shocked by the revelations

Held together by pieces of twine

I've built strength from every shelving

This is not your story

But mine