Lyric

Choose your friends well

Learn from the masks that teachers wear

It’s the only thing

I ever learned to share

I know it sounds so wrong

Like a germ that clings to your heart

You don’t want that

You don’t want a stain like me

But when you praise me

For surviving all this pain

I can’t help smiling

No one ever said my name

Like I was worth the breath they gave

So I held on

Even if it hurts you now

Seeing you happy

I corner you into my dark

My life keeps saying

“Don’t drag others through the marks”

Was it ever right?

Was I ever kind enough?

You, you face the light

While I walk the night

Don’t come here

I’m sorry I touched you

Trying to steal joy

I needed courage just to try

There were chances

But I let them pass me by

Can’t you hear it?

Every moment whispers doubt

That’s the life I chose

’cause the package looked like hope

But inside

It only calls its own

Like attracts like —

And pain finds home

(Soft, fragile)

I never meant

To blur your bright horizon

I only wanted

Someone who’d stay

So keep your eyes

On the light ahead

Don’t follow me

Don’t follow me