Nice To Meet Me

I gotta write it all down
Before I forget
What I learned within the walls of my high school room
This year, winter was long
It's been 14 months that I've had to be strong
Goodbye to unwelcome guests
Social anxiety, a part of me I'll throw out with the rest
Right here is where I belong
In the pages of the journal where I'm writing this song

I'm doing better now, oh

I thought I'd always be this way
Say I'm fine when I'm not, another lie was all I got
Lean into the pain
Change the voices in my head, replace them with the truth instead

And I know I still have a ways to go
Before I'm finally free, but I'm closer now (Now)
It's nice to meet me

You know I've always been ruled
By what people think
Was bad at criticism, confrontation, anything that made me feel weak
'Cause I let them decide
That my worth was all dependent on who they saw outside
No more, I'm trusting myself
To know what's best for me, and honestly, I don't need your help
I have my own saving grace
The One who died for me reminded me that I'll be okay

I'm doing better now, oh

I thought I'd always be this way
Say I'm fine when I'm not, another lie was all I got
Lean into the pain
Change the voices in my head, replace them with the truth instead

And I know I still have a ways to go
Before I'm finally free, but I'm closer now (Now)
It's nice to meet me

I chose to find myself
(I'd wandered in too deep and lost my way)
All these years of never letting go
(Of the things standing in my own way)
But I'm sick of floating above life
Just wishing I could see the ground
It's not so far away now

I thought I'd always be this way
Say I'm fine when I'm not, another lie was all I got
Lean into the pain
Change the voices in my head, replace them with the truth instead

And I know I still have a ways to go
Before I'm finally free, but I'm closer now
(I'm closer now, I'm closer now)
It's nice to meet me