Mostafa Elsaadi - Let Them Misunderstand

Oh screaming oh
I used to spend my nights explaining
Every sentence every choice
I made
Trying to turn my truth into a language
That everybody else could understand
I changed the edges of my story
Just to make it easier to hear
But somewhere between all those explanations
I disappear behind my fear
Now
I don't need to make it safe
I don't need to make it safe
There are parts of me that only i
Was ever meant to understand
Say what you want to say.
Paint me any
Way you want.
I know the road
Beneath my feet.
I know
Exactly where
I'm going
I don't need to change their minds
Don't need their eyes to see mine
If they only know a chapter
Let them think they know the whole
I won't trade my truth for proof
I won't give away my soul
I know
I know who
I am
Some people only love a version
They never asked them to look twice
They remember who you were yesterday
And call your growing out of style
I've learned that every open door
Doesn't mean
I have to walk inside
And every voice that calls me selfish
Doesn't know the battles
I survived.
I
Stopped defending every bound
I stopped apologizing for the space
Peace became
More important
Than being understood by everyone
Say what you want to say.
Hate
Me any way you want.
You don't have
To see my reasons.
I don't need
You to agree
Let them misunderstand
I don't need to change
Their minds
Let them misunderstand
I don't need their eyes to see mine
If they only know a chapter
Let them think they know the whole
I won't trade my truth for a quote
I won't give away my soul
Let them misunderstand misunderstand
I know
I know
I know
I know who
I am
Maybe freedom isn't being loved by
In the room
Maybe freedom is standing
QUIETLY WHEN
SOMEONE chooses not to understand you
No more
Proving, no more
Pleading, no more shrinking to somebody
Else's view.
I know my heart
I know my scars
I know the distance
I've already traveled
LET THEM MISUNDERSTAND
I FINALLY made my peace with that
Let them misunderstand
I don't need to answer every attack they
They can keep their version of me
THEY THEY CAN TELL WHATEVER STORY THEY cHOOSE
I WILL KEEP WALKING WITH THE TRUTH
THAT I WAS NEVER THERE
TO LOSE
Let them misunderstand
I know who
I am
Let them misunderstand
I know
I know who
I am
Let them talk, let them watch, let them
Think they know me
Who I am
Who I am