[Verse 1]
Cracked plate
Little hands scrape crumbs
She laughs like it’s a game
Says
“Tonight we’re eating dreams”
Cardboard roof
Counting every leak
Mama turns the story sweet
So we don’t see her shaking
[Pre-Chorus]
Across the ocean
Same blue sky
You’re choosing shoes to match your night
I’m choosing which bill we don’t pay
Just to make it through today
[Chorus]
Some kids get rain
Some kids get roses
Hearts made the same
But the world decomposes
How is it fair
When fate closes doors on us?
Some kids get stars
Some kids get darkness
Reading the future
By a burning trash can
Tell me again
How this is all just chance
[Verse 2]
Bare feet
Outside a locked gate
I press my face against
A window full of books
Your desk
Has my empty chair
You’re bored in class
You say
I trace the letters in the dirt
[Pre-Chorus]
You learn to write your name in ink
I learn to vanish when they blink
You raise your hand to ask for more
I raise mine just to be ignored
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
If you were born in my skin
Would you still call it “luck” then?
If I was wrapped in your safety
Would I forget
Would it fade me?
What if the line
Between you and me
Is thinner than air
Thinner than a single scream? [crescendo]
Would you trade places in your sleep?
[Chorus]