Verse 1
my heart…
beats quiet, like it’s scared to be heard
a tiny thing buried somewhere in the snow
and you keep saying
i’m distant
cold
weird
but you never notice
how warm it actually is
under all of that
i was a light
in the middle of the woods
trying to glow for everybody
but yeah…
darkness eats you up
when you glow alone
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Pre-Chorus
and i…
i feel the world in colors
tiny vibes nobody hears but me
and every time
i try to speak it out
it turns into a storm
again
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Chorus
why can’t you see me?
why can’t you see me…
i’m not the frost
you think i am
there’s a soft fire in me
quiet
shy
but real as hell
i love the world
animals, people
everything that breathes
but every time i open up
i turn into that girl
nobody ever
really saw
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Verse 2
i walk through life
on quiet feet
with too much kindness
shaking in my chest
i see the hurt inside your eyes
but you just keep going
never stop
never look back
you think i’m sharp
you think i’m strange
a river running off the map
but i just feel
way too much
and hide the rest
before i break myself
again
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Pre-Chorus
my feelings speak in poetry
but language turns them
into glass
and when i try to lean closer
somehow
i still
break the past
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Chorus (stronger)
why can’t you see me?
why can’t you see me…
i’m not the winter
you made of me
i’m embers
soft ones
the kind you never
notice burning
i care for every heart
loud or quiet
young or tired
but every time i show it
i turn into the girl
you never saw
the misunderstood one
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Bridge
i see the hurt in your shadows
the chaos hiding under your peace
how do you walk through fire
and never
feel
the heat?
i hold whole universes
inside me
too bright
too wild
too much
and when i try to say them softly
you turn away
like it’s my fault
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Final Chorus
why can’t you see me?
why can’t you see me…
i’m not the coldness
in your mind
i’m starlight
stitched with old warmth
you’ll never find anywhere else
i hold the world so gently
in my trembling little hands
but every word i try to give
turns into storms
you don’t understand
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Outro
(heartbeat slowing… voice fading like light under water)
i’m not distant
just unseen
a soft wild thing
stuck
in between
JOREN
