Lyric

They wrote me down

And left the rest blank

A line for my body

No room for my weight

My name stayed clean on paper

My hands stayed out of view

They knew the way to call me

But not what I answered to

A number held beside me

A mark beside my face

Enough to say I was there

Not enough to leave a trace

My pulse kept missing daylight

My mouth kept thinning out

I learned to sound confirmed

Without being found

They kept my name in order

But lost the shape of me

They counted every entrance

And missed what had to leave

I was easy to confirm

Impossible to know

Written where they needed me

With nowhere warm to go

They asked for small corrections

A time, a date, a yes

I gave them clean replies

And folded down the rest

Someone said my name again

It sounded almost kind

But only reached the surface

And never crossed my mind

My breath stayed in the margin

My ribs stayed out of frame

I stood inside the record

But I did not feel the same

They kept my name in order

But lost the shape of me

They counted every entrance

And missed what had to leave

I was easy to confirm

Impossible to know

Written where they needed me

With nowhere warm to go

No one had to erase me

They only kept me small

The parts that made me human

Were never asked at all

I learned to be available

A voice without a room

A person made of details

That no one carried through

They kept my name in order

But lost the shape of me

They counted every entrance

And missed what had to leave

I was easy to confirm

Impossible to know

Written where they needed me

With nowhere warm to go

If you find me in the record

Do not trust the line

My name is still there somewhere

But the rest of me is mine