## Metadata
**Caption:** motown soul, socially conscious lyrics, dramatic strings, mid-tempo, 110 bpm, duet vocal
**BPM:** 84
**Duration:** 150.0s
**Key:** C major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
Grew up hearing all the whispered judgments
Grew up wearing labels I never chose
A name they gave me before I could answer
A shadow that followed wherever I go

[verse]
You say you love me, you say you want me
But I've seen what happens when love moves too fast
I won't be building on a shaky promise
I won't repeat the story of my past

[chorus]
So don't ask me to fall the way they fell
Don't ask me to carry what I carried so well
I want a love that's built on solid ground
Before I let my walls come down

[verse]
I watched my mother struggle every winter
Raising me alone against the world's cold stare
I won't bring a child into that same story
Until I know that love is really there

[chorus]
So don't ask me to fall the way they fell
Don't ask me to carry what I carried so well
I want a love that's built on solid ground
Before I let my walls come down

[bridge]
Prove to me it's real this time
Prove to me you'll stay
I've carried judgment since I was a baby
I won't carry it another day

[chorus]
So don't ask me to fall the way they fell
Don't ask me to carry what I carried so well
I want a love that's built on solid ground
Before I let my walls come down