Nothing Left to Prove

I spent too long

Trying to be enough

Now I know

I was never that far off

I used to measure every step against a stranger

Count the distance between their life and mine

Turn a simple day into a competition

Like I had to earn the right to take my time

I wore the version everybody wanted

Kept the rough edges hidden from the view

But every room I tried so hard to conquer

Left me wondering what I came there to prove

Now I don't need the room to know my name

I don't need to win to leave the game

I'm done confusing motion with a way

To find a place where I can stay

I've got nothing left to prove

Nothing left to lose

I'm not running after someone else's view

I've got nothing left to prove

I can choose what feels true

I don't need to be somebody new

I still have nights when every doubt gets louder

Still have days when I forget my own advice

But I don't turn a little fear into a failure

I don't need to get it right every time

There's a freedom in the things I stopped pretending

There's a calm in letting some opinions pass

I can walk into a room without performing

I can let a moment be a moment at last

Now I don't need the room to know my name

I don't need to win to leave the game

I'm done confusing motion with a way

To find a place where I can stay

I've got nothing left to prove

Nothing left to lose

I'm not running after someone else's view

I've got nothing left to prove

I can choose what feels true

I don't need to be somebody new

Let the world keep its measurements

Let the numbers change their minds

I have spent enough of my life

Trying to fit inside a line

I'm not finished, I'm just learning

How to stand without a mask

I can want a little more

Without forgetting what I have

I've got nothing left to prove

Nothing left to lose

I can walk my own way through the truth

I've got nothing left to prove

I can choose what feels true

I don't need to be somebody new

No race

No score

No borrowed view

Nothing left to prove