I’ve been trying to find time to find myself again I’ve been playing with the tendons in my hands I’ve been trying to learn how to be my own person Instead of trying to be interesting **** never being quite enough **** being second favorite It was never up to me anyway This isn’t about love, but that doesn’t make it painless Guess I’ll be the one who has to say “You don’t have to be good all the time You don’t have to have the answer You don’t have to be right You don’t have to be the strong one You don’t have to be liked You’re allowed to bleed outside the lines Isabel, you’re allowed to change your mind” I’ve been making new friends and listening to them I’ve been laughing on strangers' couches I’ve been thinking about how I talk to myself How my words cut like no one else’s **** never being satisfied **** a pity party I’ll never be a machine I always wanted to be so unfeeling But where has that ever gotten me? “You don’t have to be good all the time You don’t have to have the answer You don’t have to be right You don’t have to be the strong one You don’t have to be liked You’re allowed to bleed outside the lines Isabel, you’re allowed to change your mind” You don’t have to be special You don’t have to be anything You don’t have to move on if you aren’t ready You don’t have to set examples and you don’t have to lead You’re allowed to want and you’re allowed to leave “You don’t have to be good all the time You don’t have to have the answer You don’t have to be right You don’t have to be the strong one You don’t have to be liked You’re allowed to bleed outside the lines Isabel, you’re allowed to change your mind”