[Verse 1]
Birthday candles melting like wax dreams
Lonely wishes held together by loose seams
Family's voices drown in cold crowded air
She looks around but no one seems to care
[Verse 2]
Books and work tie her down every day
Raising siblings like she's lost her way
Her own needs buried deep in the shelf
No one there to ask
“How are you yourself?”
[Chorus]
Lost in the crowd invisible she feels
A heart worn down no one comes to heal
Hope flickers faint like a far-off flame
Year after year it all feels the same
[Bridge]
She clings to a hope just waiting for more
For someone to knock and open her door
A hand to reach out maybe speak her name
To show her she’s more than life’s unfair game
[Verse 3]
She dreams of a song that would set her free
A note of kindness in this cold melody
But the music around her cuts like a knife
She’s barely living this borrowed life
[Chorus]
Lost in the crowd invisible she feels
A heart worn down no one comes to heal
Hope flickers faint like a far-off flame
Year after year it all feels the same