VERSE 1
They told me what the cancer was
They told me what they’d do
They gave me all the careful facts
But not what would linger through

Nobody sat across from me
And said what I would find
That when the cancer is no more
The side effects it left behind

CHORUS
What nobody warned me about
Was the weight no one could see
The part of this that lives inside
That never shows up clean

VERSE 2
The tired that sleep cannot fix
The fog behind my eyes
The words I reach for disappear
Before I can reply

They said I’d lose my confidence
But not my sense of me
I’m the stranger in the mirror now
Not who I used to be

VERSE 3
The bills that keep on piling up
The savings wearing thin
Friends who wished to show support
But left rather than begin

I learned who stayed and who would leave
When the diagnosis hit
Some people faded into smoke
While some still proved their fit

BRIDGE
They measure blood and scan for cells
And call the numbers clean
But who checks the mental costs
In all the in-between

The guilt of making it thru today
When others couldn’t stay
Frustration from the aftermath
How it wont go away

VERSE 5
I don’t know who I am now
Only know what I was told
But something deeper carries me
When hope is hard to hold

I’m learning peace can grow from pain
And hope can live again
That even after all this fight
A new life can begin

OUTRO
What nobody warned me about
Was how my heart would grow
How even in the hardest days
A deeper light would show

The changes no one thought to name
The ones nobody tracks
The things that dont stay the same
And how I’d rise through that

It’s been a gift in its own way
Changing how I see
Things I once took for granted
Are now what set me free

The changes no one thought to name
The ones nobody tracks
What I’m so grateful to now know
Was the learning to give back