Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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produced by Dia Beatz.

I’ve been trying to understand why my heart stays broken
One look at me, I have it all, but they don’t see the footprints
The shadows lingering inside the walls that hold my heart
The voices in my head that only want to tear me apart

I’ve been trying to understand why my heart stays empty
One look at me, they see a smile, she must be so happy
In four years’ time I lost a child, I lost my will to live
Don’t get it twisted, I’m still standing, climbing up this hill

I lost friends, I lost foes, I lost strangers and heartbeats
Felt the fingers of demons hooking through my insides
Tear apart every piece of me that ever held a
Glimmer of hope that I would make it out alive

Here I stand, take me now
I can’t breathe, take my crown
I am fallen, shattered, pieces on the ground
Here I stand, take me now
All the pieces in between
I am fallen, shattered, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

Thirty four years and I still love the same people that broke me
You’d think I’d learn but here I am holding their hearts above me
While my own heart is shattered, pieces cracked upon the ground
Glass bleeds through the footprints that still linger deep inside my walls

I feel anger, I feel pain, but I mask it so well that
You’d never think that I’ve been falling apart when I smile
Thirty four years of hiding, taught I wasn’t good enough
Cold case promises continue to linger inside my heart

I waited hours, I spent days searching for ever after
I thought I found it til the melancholy set right in
Made a home inside the shining parts within my soul
Captivated every essence that had ever made me whole

So here I stand, take me now
I can’t breathe, take my crown
I am fallen, shattered, pieces on the ground
Here I stand, take me now
I just wanted to be seen
I am fallen, shattered, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN