[Intro]
mm-mm...
yeah...
I got good at this...
[Verse 1]
Every time I spoke too honestly
someone called it "too much"
every time I cried too long
they'd say I'd taken it to heart again
so I learnt
to swallow words
before anybody heard them
[Pre-Chorus]
piece by piece...
(I disappeared...)
I disappeared
before they noticed
[Chorus]
So I became smaller
quieter than I ever was
laughed when I wanted to leave
said "I'm fine"
before anybody asked
If I'm really too much...
why have I spent my whole life
trying to become less?
[Post-Chorus]
mm-mm...
(less...)
yeah...
[Verse 2]
I folded corners off myself
until I almost fit
said sorry
for things that hurt me
just so nobody
had to feel uncomfortable
Funny...
I still felt like the problem
[Pre-Chorus]
No matter how small I got...
(it wasn't enough...)
it was never small enough
[Chorus]
So I became smaller
left pieces everywhere I went
made room for everybody else
forgot I was standing there
If I'm really too much...
why does it feel
like there's almost nothing left of me?
[Bridge]
Maybe...
I wasn't asking
for too much
Maybe...
I was asking
the wrong people
[Chorus]
So I became smaller
until I couldn't find myself
called it growing up
called it coping
called it being strong
But maybe...
strength was never
disappearing
Maybe...
it was surviving
without becoming
someone else
[Outro]
yeah...
I was never...
too much...
(just me...)
I was just...
too easy
to silence...