[Verse 1]
When trauma breaks your timeline into scattered broken pieces
The future seems to vanish, hope just slowly decreases
But Herman says the healing starts with naming what went wrong
Construct a narrative that puts events where they belong
Create a before and during, then the after can begin
When you say "this happened to them, this is how it reached within"
[Chorus]
Name it, claim it, put it in its place
Mentalize, recognize what time cannot erase
From body into language, from frozen into flow
The story that you tell yourself helps future start to grow
Name it, frame it, give it proper time
Redemption needs a sequence, healing needs a rhyme
[Verse 2]
Fonagy teaches mentalization, thinking about your thoughts
Observe your mental patterns like a scientist who's caught
The difference between feeling and the feeling that you feel
Say "I have shortened future sense" makes the abstract real
Distance from the pattern is the first step to be free
When trauma lives in body, words can set the timeline free
[Chorus]
Name it, claim it, put it in its place
Mentalize, recognize what time cannot erase
From body into language, from frozen into flow
The story that you tell yourself helps future start to grow
Name it, frame it, give it proper time
Redemption needs a sequence, healing needs a rhyme
[Bridge]
McAdams found that healthy minds write stories of redemption
Suffering that leads to growth needs future's perception
Van der Kolk shows trauma lives in posture and sensation
But speaking breaks the cycle, starts time's restoration
[Verse 3]
The body keeps the score in ways that words cannot express
But language is the bridge that moves you out of frozen stress
From reflex into narrative, from symptom into story
Transform the endless present into hope and future glory
[Final Chorus]
Name it, claim it, put it in its place
Mentalize, recognize what time cannot erase
From body into language, from frozen into flow
The story that you tell yourself helps future start to grow
Name it, frame it, give it proper time
Recovery needs a sequence, healing needs a rhyme
[Outro]
This happened, then this happened, now this is where I stand
The future opens up again when trauma's reprimanded