킴버 레인 Kimber Lane

Paper Walls

Walkin’ through the corners

where the streetlights never stay.

Every shadow whispers

what I’m “supposed” to be today.

People draw their outlines,

handing me the missing key

But every lock they picture

never once belonged to me.

I’ve been trying not to fold

in a world that sees me thin.

Paper walls around me

crumple every time I breathe in.

Paper walls, paper dreams,

I keep pushing through the seams.

They bend me, bruise me,

but they’ll never choose me

I’ll rewrite what I believe.

Paper walls can’t cage my name,

I’m more than their unspoken frame.

Tonight I’m breaking through it all

these paper walls.

Sidewalk conversations

sound like riddles in disguise.

Smiles with hidden meanings,

questions hiding in their eyes.

But I keep walking steady,

‘cause the truth is under skin

A fire built in silence

that refuses to stay in.

Yeah, I’ve been torn and taped again,

patched by things they’ll never see.

But every tear that shaped me

drew a better part of me.

Paper walls, paper dreams,

I keep pushing through the seams.

They bend me, bruise me,

but they’ll never choose me

I’ll rewrite what I believe.

Paper walls can’t cage my name,

I’m more than their unspoken frame.

Tonight I’m breaking through it all

these paper walls.