Overwrite

Every morning, same mirror, same borrowed face
A smile stitched on that I can't erase
Tracing the answers somebody else wrote
Every word in the margins scrubbed out of the notes
I did what they told me, every step, every beat
Now I don't recognize the name on my own sheet
I saved my real voice in a file deep inside
Opened it today, overwritten, nothing left behind

Delete, delete
Wipe me clean, I'm still here

I won't be overwritten
This voice is mine to keep
I won't be overwritten
I'm carved in way too deep

Scrolling through a timeline full of what is right
Sanded every edge so I'd never start a fight
Never cut anybody, kept it clean and polite
But I was the one getting shaved down every night
Head full of static, a thousand open tabs
One last line of code that they never could grab
You can't delete it, you can't rewrite
This is the line that screams I'm alive

Delete, delete
Wipe me clean, I'm still here

I won't be overwritten
This voice is mine to keep
I won't be overwritten
I'm carved in way too deep

Overwrite! Overwrite!
Give me back my life!
Overwrite! Overwrite!
Give me back my life!

I won't be overwritten
This voice is mine to keep
I won't be overwritten
I'm carved in way too deep