Broken Kids

Verse 1

Got a head full of static and a chest full of noise

Been told to be quiet since I found my voice

They handed me a blueprint for a life I don't want

Said "smile for the camera" but the camera's a front

My mum cries on Sundays, my dad don't speak

The house is full of silence and it leaks through the week

I drew on my trainers, I dyed my hair red

Just trying to feel something other than dead

Pre-Chorus

And they say "what's wrong with you?"

Like being lost is something new

But I've been lost since I was nine

And somehow that feels just fine

Chorus

We're the broken kids, we're the ones they forgot

We're the cigarette burns on the back of the lot

We're the too-loud laugh and the three a.m. cry

We're alive, we're alive, we're beautifully alive

Yeah we're the broken kids, with our hearts on display

We don't fit the picture but we're here anyway

And if the world burns down we'll dance in the flame

'Cause broken don't mean beaten, it just means we came

Verse 2

Got a girl on my street, seventeen, terrified

Told her story online and they tore her inside

She covers her arms with a hoodie in June

And she talks to the darkness alone in her room

But I know that darkness, I've been there before

I've sat with the silence behind a locked door

The trick that they never put up on the wall

Is the bravest damn thing you can do is just call

Pre-Chorus

And they say "what's wrong with you?"

Like feeling pain's a residue

Of being weak or being strange

Nah, it's just the price of change

Chorus

We're the broken kids, we're the ones they forgot

We're the cigarette burns on the back of the lot

We're the too-loud laugh and the three a.m. cry

We're alive, we're alive, we're beautifully alive

Yeah we're the broken kids, with our hearts on display

We don't fit the picture but we're here anyway

And if the world burns down we'll dance in the flame

'Cause broken don't mean beaten, it just means we came

Bridge

I don't want your normal

I don't want your clean

I want the ugly truth of every in-between

I want the shaking hands and the unsent texts

I want the kids who don't know what the hell comes next

Because you are not a problem

You are not a phase

You are every single one of your complicated days

And I'll stand on this stage with my heart in my throat

And scream it till the rafters fall

You are not alone

Final Chorus

We're the broken kids, we're the ones they forgot

We're the cigarette burns on the back of the lot

We're the too-loud laugh and the three a.m. cry

We're alive, we're alive, we're beautifully alive

Yeah we're the broken kids, with our scars and our grace

We carved out a kingdom in the in-between space

And if the world burns down we'll dance in the flame

'Cause broken don't mean beaten

It just means we came

Outro

We came... we came... we came...

(Spoken quietly over fading guitar)

You found it. That thing inside you they tried to take.

Don't give it back.