[Verse 1]
I learned how to disappear
Without leaving the room
Smile at the table
While dying in plain view
Cause people love function
Not the man underneath
So I gave them strength
And hid the part begging to breathe
I keep talking louder
But nobody turns around
So I pour my soul in lyrics
Hoping pain makes a sound
[Chorus]
Please hear me
Please see me
Please feel that I’m alive
Cause I’m screaming through a smile
Just to prove there’s something inside
I speak so you’ll hear me
I write so you’ll feel me
Cause silence makes me vanish
And I’m terrified I’m nothing
If nobody can feel me
[Verse 2]
Every touch becomes a question
Every silence feels like proof
That I’ll never be enough
To be fully chosen too
And I hate that validation
Feels like oxygen to me
Like desire equals value
Like being wanted lets me breathe
So when moments crack my chest open
I spiral into doubt
Not because I didn’t feel love
But because I couldn’t feel myself
[Pre-Chorus]
And that’s the part nobody sees
The war beneath my skin
How every room I walk into
Feels like I must earn existing in
[Chorus]
Please hear me
Please see me
Please tell me I am real
Cause I’m drowning in my own head
And music’s all that people feel
I speak so you’ll hear me
I write so you’ll feel me
Cause if my pain can move you
Then maybe I still matter
Maybe I’m still here
[Bridge]
I don’t want pity
I don’t want saving
I just want someone
To stop overlooking me
To look past the calm voice
The jokes
The confidence
The control
And notice
I am begging
To be felt
[Final Chorus]
Please hear me
Before I fade into the walls
Please see me
Before there’s nothing left at all
I turned my wounds to music
Cause bleeding wasn’t enough
And if these words can shake you
Maybe I deserve love
I speak so you’ll hear me
I write so you’ll feel me
Cause being unseen
Has always been
My deepest fear
HumbleMike
