Lyric

Are you still in there?

Ten years of words I never said

Are sitting in my throat

A noise that never shuts its mouth

Is grinding through my ribs

Grey light on the crossing

A world where nobody cries

I froze this voice so long ago

I forgot how it thaws

"Kill the pain and you'll be happy"

That's the cage

With the gentle face, whispering

But the only part of me still shaking

Is the part that's screaming

I'm alive

Static in my chest

I'll sing it broken, sing it raw

Every crack, every hiss

It's all my soul, it's all I've got

I don't have to be good

I don't have to be clean

I don't have to be heard

Let me be the first crack

Running through the frozen world

Static in my chest

Mama, the pain you tried to erase

Had the same exact shape

As the love you gave me

"Goodbye" and "thank you"

I sing them with the same tears

So wherever this song lands

Let me find you there again

The songs that never reached anyone

Don't disappear

They're just waiting

So — world. Listen

Static in my chest

Ten years of voice, all at once

The broken note is the one thing

No machine can ever count

I don't have to be good

I don't have to be clean

If it still rings out —

This noise inside my chest

They're gonna call it a revolution

Static in my chest —

(Breath) …can you hear me?