I spent my whole life
Trying to fit inside a picture
Someone else painted for me
Tonight
I'm stepping out of the frame

I used to measure every word I said
Used to sleep with someone else's rules inside my head
I wore perfection like a second skin
Smiled for the cameras while I was caving in

I was scared of every mirror
Scared of everything they'd see
Then I shattered every reflection
That was never really me

Now the night is wide open
And the city knows my name
I don't need anybody's permission
To set myself in flames

I don't need your approval
I don't need your light
I spent too many years
Trying to live right

If heaven has a doorway
I'm not waiting in the line
I've got nothing left to prove
I've got everything that's mine

Freedom
Running through my veins tonight
Freedom
Like a city coming alive

No chains
No cage
No hand around my heart
You can keep your perfect world
I'm gonna make my own from the start

Freedom
I can finally breathe
Freedom
I can finally be me

If loving who I am
Is the greatest crime I've done
Then let the whole damn world know
I choose freedom

Oh-oh-oh
I choose freedom
Oh-oh-oh
I choose me

Oh-oh-oh
No more secrets
Oh-oh-oh
Finally free

I bought a ticket with no destination
Left my fears at the train station
Put my heartbeat on the radio
Let everybody hear what I already know

I don't need a golden staircase
I don't need a seat on your throne
I spent too long chasing somebody's heaven
When I could've built my own

Every scar became a signature
Every mistake became a song
Every time they told me you don't belong
I turned around and proved them wrong

I don't need your approval
I don't need your light
I spent too many years
Trying to live right

If heaven has a doorway
I'm not waiting in the line
I've got nothing left to prove
I've got everything that's mine

Freedom
Running through my veins tonight
Freedom
Like a city coming alive

No chains
No cage
No hand around my heart
You can keep your perfect world
I'm gonna make my own from the start

Freedom
I can finally breathe
Freedom
I can finally be me

If loving who I am
Is the greatest crime I've done
Then let the whole damn world know
I choose freedom

I forgive the boy I used to be
He was only trying to survive
He thought being loved meant disappearing
Thought being good meant staying quiet

But look at me no
I'm louder than the fear
Brighter than the shame
I don't need to run anymore
I don't need to change my name

Take the halo
Take the crown
Take the throne
Take it all
I don't need your heaven
To know I'm whole

Take the rules
Take the judgment
Take the lies you gave me
I spent my whole life
Asking to be free

Now, I am

Freedom
Running through my veins tonight
Freedom
Like a city coming alive

No chains
No cage
No hand around my heart
You can keep your perfect world
I'm gonna make my own from the start

Freedom
I can finally breathe
Freedom
I can finally be me

If loving who I am
Is the greatest crime I've done
Then let the whole damn world know
I choose freedom

Oh-oh-oh
I choose freedom
Oh-oh-oh
I choose me

Oh-oh-oh
No more secrets
Oh-oh-oh
Finally free

No halo
No crown
No throne
No permission
Just freedom
And me