[Verse 1]

I chose my confirmation name of Catherine when I was ten

Size ten, ten stone, already full of some kind of demons

Pre-teen, lack of self-esteem, not much longer

Before I was learning how to fuck boys

Ten stories up with a strange boy

Lucky I didn't get knocked up

Didn't get knocked up

[Verse 2]

We're all talking about owning our bodies

We're all feeling our femininity like it's godly

I believe us, we can all make peace with ourselves with enough love

But there's so much wrapped up in the way that we were brought up

Well you didn't mean it but you were brought up

In a world that reminds me that I'm a girl

And I can't come first so I gotta play catch up

Childhood leaves us with a story

And if we don't find the words to voice it

Then we keep going 'round the same old story

Poor me, ignore me, it's boring

Don't wanna pass this onto a small me

Ten floors up with a story

Lucky I didn't get knocked up

Didn't get knocked up

[Chorus]

I light a candle for my old self

I light a candle for my old shame

I stroke her hair and I tell her

That I love her all the same

[Verse 3]

Eating secretly was my shame

One way or another we're all addicted to our pain

My pain, my shame is my weight gain

I keep eating sugar tryna fill up spaces that sugar can't find

That much sugar gets you feeling high

Gets you floating out your mind

Gets you going out your body 'cause your body wants to hide

But Jameela Jamil said the issue isn't mine

That our shame was designed to alienate our kind

Making problems out of women's bodies is lucrative

Because desire creates the perfect consumerist

And it's true that this world is tough and I coulda had a girl

Thank God I didn't get knocked up

[Chorus]

I light a candle for my old self

I light a candle for my old shame

I stroke her hair and I tell her

That I love her all the same

[Outro]

I love her, I love her

I love her all the same

I love her, I love her

I love her all the same

I love her, I love her

I love her all the same