Lyric

No more

I can’t... I can’t… I can’t… I CAN’T!

Don’t you laugh— I’m crying here

Swallowed too much, it’s choking me

No place to spill, no way to breathe

My voice melts into the night

Bouncing back from the walls, then dying out

Every shallow breath I take

Feels like my chest will cave

Nails dig deep inside my palm

No one ever saw the scars

Smiles I fake become my armor

Too heavy— I can’t stand up

I never said “please save me”

So I scream instead— please hear me

Even if my voice breaks— hear me

“I can’t, I can’t, I can’t”

I screamed it inside a thousand times

But when you said “you’re here for me”

That alone let me breathe again

That day, today, and tomorrow too

Behind my smile, I was shaking

Heard a voice I didn’t know was mine

But your gentle hand reached out

And untangled all my chains

Even my cold, trembling fingers

Turned warm when you called my name

Every time you said it out loud

The pain in my chest would fade away

In the dark I kept on searching

No way out, no light to find

But your voice cut through the silence

So I could walk— I could walk on

Hey

Am I allowed to stay alive?

Am I allowed to be right here?

Tell me you won’t let go

Your voice pulls me back again

Again and again— pulls me back again

“I can’t, I can’t”

But having a place to say it— that’s my strength

Through crying smiles

I call your name again and again

Again and again and again

Even on the days I’m tired of holding on

Because you are here

Because you are here

Because you… are here

I’m here…