Well, I grew up in a broken home I thought it didn't wound me, but I was wrong I learned how to be a man Watching the fathers of my friends It's hard getting what you need When your mother is crying every day I turned all that sorrow inward I learned how to lock it away I never let anyone in, I was solid as a stone If something needed figuring out I figured it out on my own I fought with the ones that I loved most Screaming in the dead of the night I saw love as a battlefield And I put up a hell of a fight But I surrender I surrender Now I've done a lot of things wrong But I can't blame my childhood home Withholding forgiveness, it's living but it's sickness I'm ashamed that I'm too weak, to turn my life around Tonight I just give up, I lay everything down I never let anyone in, I was solid as a stone If something needed figuring out I could figure it out on my own I fought with the ones that I loved most Screaming in the dead of the night I saw love as a battlefield And I put up a hell of a fight But I surrender I surrender I surrender