"Taking Back The Keys" - Developing Inner Strength, Duration 05:14

A song to support you with and give you permission to:

• Create positive change
• Strengthen your innate self-esteem
• Empower and strengthen your decision-making

When you are:

• needing to upgrade your inner dialogue
• looking to regain sovereignty over your life
• needing an injection of courage and bullet-proof confidence

Style: Modern blue-eyed soul (R&B)

LYRICS

"TAKING BACK THE KEYS"

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

You’ve been a mirror for a thousand different faces

Trying to fit your soul into all their hollow spaces.

You’re a master of the "sorry," a ghost inside the room

Planting everybody's garden while you forget to bloom.

But the shoreline doesn't apologize for the rising of the tide

And you don’t have to shrink yourself just to keep ‘em satisfied.

[Pre-Chorus]

You’re cutting the strings, you’re letting 'em fall

You’re finding the voice that was behind the wall.

[Chorus]

I’m taking back the keys to the house

I’m building now I’m breaking every silence, I’m keeping every vow!

I ain’t a soft place for your feet to land no more

I’m the mountain, I’m the thunder, I’m the iron in the door.

It’s a brand new conversation, it’s a sacred kind of "No"

And I’m watching how my power starts to grow.

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]

The oak tree doesn't ask the wind for permission to stand tall

She doesn't check the weather to see if she should fall.

You’ve been pouring out your story ‘til the well was bone-dry

Believing every "no" was a reason for a lie.

But look at the tigress, she doesn't hunt for praise

She’s just living out the fire of her own golden days.

[Chorus]

I’m taking back the keys to the house I’m building now

I’m breaking every silence, I’m keeping every vow!

I ain’t a soft place for your feet to land no more

I’m the mountain, I’m the thunder, I’m the iron in the door.

It’s a brand new conversation, it’s a sacred kind of "No"

And I’m watching how my power starts to grow.

[Bridge]

It’s okay if they’re disappointed. It’s okay if they’re confused.

I’d rather be the "difficult" one Than the one who’s being used!

(Vocal Ad-lib: Yeah, I’m done being used!)

[Final Chorus]

I’m taking back the keys to the house I’m building now

I’m breaking every silence, I’m keeping every vow!

I ain’t a soft place for your feet to land no more

I’m the mountain, I’m the thunder, I’m the iron in the door.

It’s a brand new conversation, it’s a sacred kind of "No"

And I’m watching how my power starts to grow.

[Outro]

The house is mine... The keys are in my hand...

I’m meant to be exactly where I stand.

[End]

© Christina Juppe 2026