Victim Or Survivor

I've got more skeletons than cemeteries hold
That made just living life feel like a funeral
The kind of traumatized no one will ever know
That made me fantasize about just letting go

Until I saved my soul
With what I can control

When it rains you can drown or you can be baptized
When you hit rock-bottom, you can cry or climb
Crutch or a crown, only you decide
Victim or survivor?
Be born by the battle or just wave a white flag
Deciding not to die, that might be all you have
You can make that choice or you can be your past
Victim or survivor?

(Victim or survivor)

I got a story too, a cautionary tale
Thought I lost it all, I'll spare you the details
So call me a victim like it's self-inflicted
Put me in a prison, don't know any different

Boy, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the victim
I'm the survivor

When it rains you can drown or you can be baptized
When you hit rock-bottom, you can cry or climb
Crutch or a crown, only you decide
Victim or survivor?
Be born by the battle or just wave a white flag
Deciding not to die, that might be all you have
You can make that choice or you can be your past
Victim or survivor?

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the victim
I'm the survivor
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the victim
I'm the survivor
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the victim
I'm the survivor

When it rains you can drown or you can be baptized
When you hit rock-bottom, you can cry or climb
Crutch or a crown, only you decide
Victim or survivor?
Be born by the battle or just wave a white flag
Deciding not to die, that might be all you have
You can make that choice or you can be your past
Victim or survivor?

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the victim
Victim or survivor?
You can make that choice or you can be your past
Victim or survivor?