My righteousness

ain’t borrowed gold

It don’t sit proud

it don’t pose

It grows from dirt

and scraped-up knees

From the small true part

that still believes

There’s a child in me

with a dirty grin

Who learned the dark

and let it in

It comes from that child

(comes from that child)

Still walking with wolves

(still walking with wolves)

He laughed with the devil

(laughed with the devil)

Then dragged me home

Then dragged me home

I wore my shame

like a second skin

I let it speak

I let it win

But mercy found me

under the bruise

Named every wound

I refused to choose

There’s a child in me

with a dirty grin

Who learned the dark

and let it in

It comes from that child

(comes from that child)

Still walking with wolves

(still walking with wolves)

He laughed with the devil

(laughed with the devil)

Then dragged me home

Then dragged me home

I know the night

I know the door

I know the grin

I know it more

But what I am

ain’t what I hid

I’m the hurt that healed

I’m the kid

It comes from that child

(comes from that child)

Still walking with wolves

(still walking with wolves)

He laughed with the devil

(laughed with the devil)

Then dragged me home

Then dragged me home