They Wanted to Break You, But Instead, They Built a Monster

you feel it don't you that ache deep inside your chest the one that never leaves the Betrayal the abandonment the laughter they threw at your back while you stumbled through their Maze of Lies they wanted to break you oh they wanted to see you crumble into dust but you didn't know instead they lit a fire inside you they poured gasoline on it every time they ignored your screams every time they turned their faces away and now now they've built something they can't control a monster let me ask you something what's worse the one who stabs

you or the one who holds the blade and just watches think about that for a second they held the blade didn't they they didn't do it out right no that'd be too honest for them instead they let you bleed out slowly pretending they didn't notice the pool forming around their feet but here's the kicker kid they thought you'd lie there forever they never counted on you getting up that's where they screwed up let me tell you a little story imagine a dog a loyal one tied to a post the people around him his so-called family

throw scraps at him just enough to keep him alive but never enough to fill his belly one day they stop feeding him altogether they laugh thinking he'll just wither away die quietly in the corner but instead that dog snaps he chews through the Rope turns wild and when he does he's not the same anymore he's hungry and he doesn't forget who kept him chained you're that dog aren't you you've been chained mocked starved of everything you deserved but now those chains they're gone you're loose and you've got a hunger they'll never understand that hunger that's

your power you don't see it yet but I do I see it get in your eyes they're not the same eyes of someone who's broken they're the eyes of someone who's awake listen to me weak people fear pain they run from it avoid it like it's some kind of disease but you you walk straight into the fire and came out with scars scars are proof my friend proof that you survived what they couldn't every single scar on your body on your mind is a badge they'll never wear it's armor and do you know what scares

them the most you're still standing Oh They'll act like they're not scared they'll still try to laugh at you belittle you act like you're just some damaged thing but deep down deep down they're terrified of what they've created they're scared because they know monsters don't follow rules monsters don't care about approval monsters don't forgive think about it they pushed you to the edge over and over again they threw rocks while you were already drowning and now they're shocked that you don't want to save them from the tide it's ironic isn't it they always call people

like you dangerous when you stop bending over backwards for them but let me tell you something they don't get to decide who you are anymore you do the world loves to talk about forgiveness about letting go but why should you forgive people who would burn your house down just to feel the warmth why should you let go of what made you stronger no you don't let it go you you take it every ounce of pain every betrayal every time they laughed in your face and you turn it into fuel let them underestimate you let them

keep thinking you're the same person they tried to destroy because when you finally show them who you've become it won't just scare them it'll destroy everything they thought they knew you'll become their nightmare you've got to stop playing their game stop trying to prove yourself to people who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire start proving yourself to yourself look in the mirror and ask one question what's next because they already threw their best shot at you and guess what you're still here they wanted to break you but all they did was show

you the cracks in their own masks here's the truth people don't fear the person who falls they fear the person who gets back up every single time you've got that in you I can see it so stop wasting your energy on people who don't deserve a second thought use it to build something they can't touch yourself remember this monsters aren't born they're built built by betrayal by Pain by the very people who thought they were Untouchable and you you're the proof you're not a victim anymore my friend you're the thing they'll spend the rest of

their lives running from let them run you think the world has rules don't you laws that bind us some kind of moral framework that keeps everything neat and tidy that's the first lie they teach you the rules are just stories kid stories made up by people who have power so they can keep it they're scared of chaos scared of things they can't predict can't control and you you're chaos now they don't know what to do with you anymore that's why they'll try to talk you down try to put you back in the Box they built

for you but here's the thing about breaking out of a cage once you've tasted Freedom no one can convince you to lock yourself up again think back to when this all started remember how they whispered behind your back how they treated you like dirt under their shoes every fake smile every Hollow compliment they were just ways to keep you in line to make you think you needed them but now you see it don't you you see through the mask and that terrifies them you see people are comfortable with predictable they like their little routines their

neat little worlds where they can feel important but when someone like you comes along long someone who's been burned torn apart and still refuses to lie down that shakes them to their core they don't want to face the reality you represent because if you can survive what they threw at you then what excuse do they have for crumbling Under Pressure let me tell you another story there was this guy I knew once call him Charlie Charlie was a nobody worked a dead-end job barely made rent and spent every waking moment trying to please people who

didn't give a damn about him sound familiar one day Charlie's boss decided he didn't like Charlie anymore no reason really just bored I guess so he starts p Ping On the pressure blaming Charlie for every little thing that goes wrong Charlie keeps his head down tries to make it work but it's never enough eventually Charlie snaps but not in the way you think he doesn't storm into the office doesn't scream or throw punches no Charlie does something much scarier he starts to think he realizes he's been playing someone else's game all along and the deck

was stacked against him from the start so Charlie quits walks out the door without a Second Glance everyone thinks he's crazy but 6 months later Charlie run running his own business meanwhile the boss who thought he was Untouchable gets canned for embezzlement the point kid is this when you stop playing by their rules you force them to face their own weaknesses you take their power away and that scares them more than anything now let's get to the real question what are you going to do you've got all this rage all this pain inside you you

can feel it clawing at your chest can't you like a caged animal desperate to get out but here's the thing that rage it's not your enemy it's your weapon the world wants you to suppress it to bury it under a mountain of fake smiles and forced apologies they want you to believe that anger is bad that it makes you a monster but guess what monsters get things done take that rage sharpen it like a blade use it to carve out your own path to tear through the lies they've wrapped around you but and this is

important don't let it consume you you've got to control it not the other way around a fire that burns too hot can destroy you just as easily as it can destroy them balance kid that's the key be the monster they fear but never let them see you lose control keep them guessing keep them scared they'll call you names they'll say you're heartless cruel maybe even insane let them their words are just chains they're trying to put back on you but you've broken those chains already haven't you you've tasted what it feels like to be free

remember this every time they try to pull you down they're just just proving that you're above them people only try to destroy what they can't control so let them talk let them whisper behind your back while they waste their breath you'll be building something they'll never understand you're not the victim anymore you're not the one begging for scraps at their table you're the one flipping the table over setting it on fire and walking away without looking back you've got a choice to make kid you can spend your life trying to prove yourself to people who

never care or you can prove something to yourself you can let their laughter haunt you or you can use it as fuel to light the path ahead but whatever you do don't go back don't let them trick you into thinking you owe them anything because the truth is they owe you they owe you for every tear you shed every sleepless night every time they made you question your worth they wanted to break you but instead they built a monster so be that monster be the thing they fear when they close their eyes at night be

the reminder that no matter how hard they try they'll never be able to erase you because the greatest Revenge isn't just surviving it's thriving it's becoming everything they said you could be and doing it so loudly that they can't ignore you go out there take everything they said you couldn't have build something they can't destroy and when they come crawling back begging for forgiveness remember this moment remember who you are now oh you're not tired yet are you no I can see it they're still fighting you good cuz we're just getting started you think this

is where your story ends no no no this is where it begins everything before this moment that was just the prologue the pain the Betrayal the humiliation that wasn't the end end of you that was the foundation you see most people they crumble under the weight of it all life throws a few punches and they're down for the count but you you've been hit harder than most life didn't just punch you it beat you into the ground and yet here you you are still breathing Still Standing do you realize how rare that is people like

you you're one in a million most people don't have the stomach for it they don't have the will to claw their way out of the darkness but you you don't just survive the darkness you thrive in it you've made it your home your Sanctuary that scares people it terrifies them because it means they can't control you and people hate what they can't control let me tell you something about people they love to wear masks not the fun kind like mine no I'm talking about The Masks they wear to hide who they really are they pretend

to be good to be kind to care about you but peel back the mask and what do you find self-interest fear weakness they'll tell you they want what's best for you but that's a lie what they really want is to keep you small to keep you manageable because the moment you start to rise the moment you show them you're more than they thought you become a threat and threats well they can't have that can they what do they do they try to break you you they chip away at you little by little a snide comment

here a betrayal there they push you test your limits hoping you'll crack and if you don't if you keep Standing Tall that's when they really show their true colors they'll call you names monster villain they'll paint you as the bad guy in their little story because it's easier than admitting the truth that they're the ones who failed not you but here's the thing about being the villain villains don't play by the rules villains don't care about approval villains win you see the world isn't kind to people like you and me it doesn't reward strength or

resilience no it rewards Conformity it rewards those who Keep Their Heads down who play along who never challenge the status quo but you you've already broken free from that you've already shown the world that you're not like them and that my friend and is your greatest weapon they'll try to use it against you of course they'll say you're too much that you're too angry too intense they'll try to shame you into shrinking back into the little box they built for you but don't you dare let them do you know why they hate your anger because

it reminds them of everything they've suppressed they hate your intensity because it forces them to confront their own mediocrity and they hate your strength because it shines a light on their weakness but you your past caring what they think aren't you you've seen the truth you've felt the knife in your back the weight of their lies The Emptiness of their promises and now you're done done playing their game done living by their rules That's What Makes You dangerous That's What Makes You Unstoppable here's the thing about monsters they don't start that way monsters are created

they're forged in fire built From the Ashes of everything they've lost you didn't ask to be a monster you didn't want this but they left you no choice and now now you're the thing they fear the most not because you're cruel or evil but because you're free free from their control free from their lies free from the chains they tried to wrap around you let me tell you something about Freedom it's not given it's taken you have to fight for it claw for it bleed for it but once you have it oh there's nothing sweeter

nothing more terrifying to the people who tried to keep you down they wanted to break you they wanted to see you fall apart to watch you disappear into the void but instead you Rose you took their hate their betrayal their cruelty and you turned it into power and now now they're the ones who are afraid afraid of what you'll do afraid of what you've become they built a monster and they don't even realize it it yet but they will oh they will you don't owe them anything not your forgiveness not your understanding not your time

they made their choices and now they have to live with the consequences you're not here to make them feel better about what they did you're here to make them remember to remind them of the price of underestimating Someone Like You Be The Monster they fear be the nightmare they can't escape but most of all be the reminder that no matter how hard they tried they couldn't break you you want me to keep going good because there's more you've got to understand what they did to you wasn't random oh no it was deliberate they chose you

they picked you apart piece by piece like a pack of wolves tearing into a wounded deer why because they could smell it that strength you have the thing that sets you apart it threatened them even when you didn't know you had it they could see it people like them they don't attack the weak they ignore the weak they go after the ones who make them feel small the ones who reflect back everything they lack that's why they came for you why they chipped away at you why they threw everything they had to try and bury

you they thought if they broke you it would prove something to themselves but all they proved was how fragile they are and now now they've got to live with the fact that their best wasn't good enough you're still here still breathing still ready to fight and them they're Running Scared do you know what scares them the most about you it's not your anger it's not your strength it's not even the fact that they couldn't break you no what scares them is the simple truth that you don't need them they spent so much time convincing you

that you were nothing without them that you needed their approval their validation their scraps of attention but now you see the lie for what it is you've realized you don't need their acceptance you don't need their fake Smiles they Hollow words and that my friend is the ultimate power move because once you stop needing them they lose all their power over you you're free now free to live your life on your terms free to chase your goals without their dead weight dragging you down free to be everything they were too afraid to be let me

tell you something about fear it's a funny thing most people think fear is about being being scared of something spiders Heights the dark but real fear real fear is the realization that you've got no control that's what you represent to them you're a reminder that control is an illusion they thought they had you figured out thought they could predict your every move but now now you're a wild card unpredictable Unstoppable and that terrifies them because here's the truth they don't want to admit they need you more than you ever needed them they need someone to

look down on someone to blame when their lives don't go the way they planned without you they're just ordinary and Ordinary People they're the ones who Fade Away into nothing you're not ordinary you've never been ordinary that's why they hated you why they tried to tear you apart they couldn't handle the fact that you were different that you didn't fit into their little box but here's the thing about boxes they're easy to break out of when you stop believing you belong in one you don't belong in a box you don't belong in their world of

mediocrity and Mindless Conformity you're bigger than that stronger than that and now you've got the scars to prove it every scar tells a story every wound you've endured every battle you fought it's all written on your skin in your soul and those scars they're not weaknesses they're not things to be ashamed of they're Badges of Honor proof that you've survived things they never could here's what you do next you take everything they try to use against you every insult every betrayal every wound and you turn it into fuel you burn so brightly that they can't

look at you without remembering what they did without feeling the weight of their own failures you show them that their worst wasn't enough that no matter how hard they tried you're still here still standing still stronger than they could ever hope to be And when they see you rise when they see you succeed it'll destroy them not because you're cruel but because they'll realize they had a hand in building the very thing that that now overshadows them you'll be their regret their shame their Nightmare and that my friend is Justice you're not just surviving anymore

you're thriving you're taking back everything they tried to steal from you your confidence your strength your sense of self and you're doing it on your terms so let them talk let them whisper let them try to tear you down again because this time you're ready this time you've got the armor they gave you the Armor they forged through their own cruelty they wanted to break you but instead they built a monster and now now it's your turn turn your turn to take everything they said you couldn't have to be everything they said you couldn't be

because the greatest Revenge isn't just surviving it's thriving so loudly that they can't ignore you it's becoming the person they'll never forget no matter how much they wish they could you're not walking away just yet are you good because we're not finished you see the the world doesn't want you to realize what you've become they don't want you to see how much power you hold now they'd rather keep you blind stumbling around in the dark thinking you're still that same broken Soul they left behind but you're not Oh no you're something else now you've been

tempered for Ed do you know what that means it means they tried to melt you down to turn you into something they could control but instead of breaking you hardened you became sharper stronger and now you've got edges they can't handle that's the funny thing about pressure it doesn't just destroy boy it creates diamonds steel you come all born from pressure you didn't just survive it you mastered it and now now you're dangerous because you know how to wield it but let me ask you something what are you going to do with all this power

are you going to waste it proving something to them trying to make them see what they did trying to make them apologize or are you going to use it to build something bigger something they can't touch you owe them nothing not your time not your forgiveness not even your anger they don't deserve to live rentree in your head but you know who does you you deserve to take up every inch of space in that mind of yours you deserve to focus on yourself to build yourself up to become the person they never thought you could

be and here's the beauty of it they can't stop you not anymore they've already played their hands they threw everything they had at you and you're still standing so what's left for them to do whisper gossip throw stones from behind their Glass Walls let them their noise means nothing now people like them they live for reactions they thrive on the attention the drama the chaos they can cause in your life but do you know what happens when you stop reacting when you stop giving them the satisfaction they crumble they fade into nothingness because without you

they're nothing let me tell you a secret silence is louder than any scream your silence your refusal to acknowledge their existence it'll Echo louder in their minds than any words you could throw at them they'll spend their nights wondering why you stopped caring why you stopped giving them the power they used to have over you and while they're bus losing sleep over you you'll be out there building a life they can't touch a life that doesn't include them that's the ultimate Revenge isn't it not the yelling not the fighting but thriving succeeding being so far

out of their reach that they can't even comprehend it you don't need them to see what they've done you don't need their apologies their fake remorse they empty words because here's the thing they don't matter anymore they're relics of a past you've outgrown you're not living for them you're living for you and every step you take forward is a step away from the pain they tried to trap you in every win every moment of joy every achievement it's all a reminder that they failed they wanted to break you to leave you shattered and begging but

instead they gave you the tools to rebuild yourself into something stronger something better something they'll never be able to touch and now now you've got the power not just over them but over yourself you've got the power to choose who you become to decide what your life looks like from here on out and that my friend is a power they'll never have you're not a victim anymore you're not the person they left behind you're the storm they never saw coming the monster they built but can't control and monsters oh we don't play nice we don't

ask for permission we don't wait for approval we take what's ours we carve our own paths no matter who stands in the way so go out there and take it take everything they said you couldn't have be everything they said you couldn't be And when they see you rise when they see you standing tall unshaken unbroken they'll finally realize the truth they didn't break you they built you and now they'll have to live with the con consequences show them what a monster looks like show them the power they gave you when they tried to destroy

you and never forget they wanted to break you but instead they built a legend I [Music]