What Do (On Behalf of Survivors)
What do you say when a 'safe' space betrays you?
Where do you go when they posed like they loved you?
Where do you run when a confidant harms you?
What do you say when a 'safe' space betrays you?
What do you do when they choose who abused you
Tell you you're bitter, and try to confuse you?
Righteous anger at the truth they abused you
Is not bitterness, so don't let them confuse you
Hurt people hurt people
Hurt people hurt you
Hurt people hurt; people hurt but we all do
Hurt people hurt, but unsafe people choose to
Not do their work; they don't heal what they ought to
Go do your work
Haven't you heard that the onus is on you to
Go do your work?
Or continue hurting the people around you?
I know you're not perfect; it's not an excuse to stay being abusive
Hurt people hurt but unsafe people choose to
Not do their work; they don't heal what they ought to
What do you do when the 'safe space' around you
Makes it your fault that a hurt person found you?
Gives them a platform, or silent compliance?
Gaslights and joins the emotional violence?
Here's what to do when a 'safe space' betrays ya
Forgive with grace when unsafe space betrays
You don't have to reconcile if no repentant behaviour
There's no place for revenge with the vengeance of the Saviour
Boundaries bulldoze the scheme of gaslighting
Walking away takes the sting out their silence
What's done in darkness will burn in the light and
Safe support systems will keep you from dying when
Hurt people hurt people
Hurt people hurt you
Hurt people hurt; people hurt but we all do
Hurt people hurt, but unsafe people choose to
Not do their work; they don't heal what they ought to
Patterns we've shown in our past will continue
Until we each do the work we need to
Therapy may be what we need
Accountability; less folks who stroke our egos
What will you do with their hurt that they gave you?
Forgive with grace when a hurt space betrays you
Your hurt is not mine to own; I'm not its home
Forgive and put it back where it belongs
I will not reap what you've sown; I reap my own
I've taken my joy back where it belongs
I forgive you cause I'm growing
I know my own sin was paid for by the One who's on the throne
He's done His work; do your own
It's yours to own: I pray that you'll heal now that you know
What will you do with their hurt that they gave you?
Forgive with grace when a hurt space betrays you
Where do you go when they posed like they loved you?
Where do you run when a confidant harms you?
What do you say when a 'safe' space betrays you?
What do you do when they choose who abused you
Tell you you're bitter, and try to confuse you?
Righteous anger at the truth they abused you
Is not bitterness, so don't let them confuse you
Hurt people hurt people
Hurt people hurt you
Hurt people hurt; people hurt but we all do
Hurt people hurt, but unsafe people choose to
Not do their work; they don't heal what they ought to
Go do your work
Haven't you heard that the onus is on you to
Go do your work?
Or continue hurting the people around you?
I know you're not perfect; it's not an excuse to stay being abusive
Hurt people hurt but unsafe people choose to
Not do their work; they don't heal what they ought to
What do you do when the 'safe space' around you
Makes it your fault that a hurt person found you?
Gives them a platform, or silent compliance?
Gaslights and joins the emotional violence?
Here's what to do when a 'safe space' betrays ya
Forgive with grace when unsafe space betrays
You don't have to reconcile if no repentant behaviour
There's no place for revenge with the vengeance of the Saviour
Boundaries bulldoze the scheme of gaslighting
Walking away takes the sting out their silence
What's done in darkness will burn in the light and
Safe support systems will keep you from dying when
Hurt people hurt people
Hurt people hurt you
Hurt people hurt; people hurt but we all do
Hurt people hurt, but unsafe people choose to
Not do their work; they don't heal what they ought to
Patterns we've shown in our past will continue
Until we each do the work we need to
Therapy may be what we need
Accountability; less folks who stroke our egos
What will you do with their hurt that they gave you?
Forgive with grace when a hurt space betrays you
Your hurt is not mine to own; I'm not its home
Forgive and put it back where it belongs
I will not reap what you've sown; I reap my own
I've taken my joy back where it belongs
I forgive you cause I'm growing
I know my own sin was paid for by the One who's on the throne
He's done His work; do your own
It's yours to own: I pray that you'll heal now that you know
What will you do with their hurt that they gave you?
Forgive with grace when a hurt space betrays you
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