You Don't Get To Have Me

You don’t get to have me
You don’t even know me

I’m stronger than you think
You should have waited
Before you decided
That you couldn’t give me
The benefit of the doubt

You should have waited
Until you really knew
Who it is that I really am
Before you decided
I wasn’t strong enough

Yes, I have a past
But did you know
That I survived it
Do you know
How it is I came to stand here
Did you ever consider

Go on, go your own way
I won’t ask you to stay
Just know that you don’t know
Who it was that I was
And you don’t get to know
Who I am, who I will become

You don’t get to have me
I am stronger than that
Stronger than
You will ever get to know

The risk was mine to take
The jump was mine to make
I made it by choice
You don’t get to have
Any of it or me