Paper Worlds Raised Me

[Verse 1]
Dog-eared spine
Ink on my hands
Dinner getting cold
I don’t hear them again
Names in the margins
Underlined prayers
If I turned the page fast
I could outrun upstairs
[Chorus]
Paper worlds raised me (raised me)
When my own four walls betrayed me
Dragons guarding every page
Heroes holding all my rage
Magic taught my heart to breathe
Found a family I could keep
When my home life buried me
Paper worlds
Yeah
Paper worlds raised me
[Verse 2]
Kids on the playground
Talking TV
I was trading myths
Like secret currency
Sisters made of starlight
Brothers born from storms
I knew every doorway
To a thousand better homes
[Chorus]
Paper worlds raised me (oh, they saved me)
When my own four walls betrayed me
Dragons guarding every page
Heroes holding all my rage
Magic taught my heart to breathe
Found a family I could keep
When my home life buried me
Paper worlds
Yeah
Paper worlds raised me
[Bridge]
Flip the cover
Step inside
Every chapter
I survive
When the shouting finds the door
I’m already on the floor
Of some hidden
Haunted room
Sharing secrets with the moon (hey)
[Chorus]
Paper worlds raised me (raised me)
When my own four walls betrayed me
Myths and creatures
Friends and ghosts
Built a place that held me close
Magic taught my heart to breathe
Gave me roots and gave me wings
When my home life buried me
Paper worlds
Yeah
Paper worlds raised me (raised me)

pop, Emo-pop with female vocals, clean electric guitar and roomy drums. First verse starts sparse with palm-muted chords and intimate vocal, then chorus jumps into wide synth pads, fuzzed bass, and stacked harmonies on the hook. Second verse adds rhythmic backing vocals and subtle glockenspiel doubling key phrases. Bridge strips to vocals and reverb-soaked guitar swells before a final, soaring chorus with a shouted gang-vocal outro., emo