I'm still here

​[INTRO]
[CLOSE, DRY]
Is it me…?
[PAUSE, EXHALE]
Or does love feel like evaporation…?
​[NUMB]
I seized my position.
world threatened existence.
Id seize to fail the definition.
​[LOW, STEADY]
I thought everyone exchanged there soul
To keep connection?
​[VERSE 1]
[FLAT]
Under the thumb.
and playing dumb.
keeps me safe.
​[RESTRAINED]
Missing the point is easy.
when you're scanning details of every face.
​[DEADPAN]
People see only what they allow.
not the pulse beneath the skin.
keep them safe from themselves.
​[HOLLOW]
the world rewards me in fragments.
while no one really asked the questions.
...
[LOWER]
…they never ask the questions.
​[CHORUS]
[ANCHORED]
I'm still here
[EXHALED]
I'm still here.
​[VERSE 2]
[TENSE]
The smile I carved into my face
above a freefall empty space
The scar is distorting.
...
[GRIT]
my skin..
...
bares down this corrosive mess within.
​[STRAINED]
tears wide open.
bleeds out broken glass.
...
[SPOKEN, COLD]
"it's not about you"
pick up the glass
put it back in
stitch it.
​[SILENT BREAK]
​[DRY]
"you don't know how lucky you have it".
​[SILENT]
​[CHORUS]
[ANCHORED]
I'm still here
[EXHALED]
I'm still here.
​[POST-CHORUS]
[HOLLOW]
addiction…
addiction…
​[HEAVY]
All I am.
is wearing so thin.
​[STEADY]
Praise means.
to feel seen.
​[DISTANT]
The exiled only exists in empty rooms.
...
[TIGHT]
I've been thrown a bone.
but what is the cost?.
​..
[PAUSE]
Well..
..
[WEIGHTED]
Something has to replace what's lost.
...
​[RAW, LOW]
I tried so hard to fight.
but how could you turn away
the oxygen you never had.
​[PAUSE]
​[COLD]
in this world
we rely on the divide.
​[PRESSING]
if we are all committed to this game
can we at least admit we're playing.
​[PAUSE]
​[FLAT]
I noted all favours given.
my heart they kept beating.
​[EXHAUSTED]
Im drowning in this exchange for visibility.
​[VERSE 3]
[HUSHED]
devotion so big
My body so small.
And..
I belonged to me.
​[SHARP]
Did u just see
Unclaimed territory ?
​[HOLLOW]
existing whenever needed.
like the curtains in a theatre.
​[TENSE]
I bound myself so tightly
to remind me.
​[STRAINED]
I'm a ticking time bomb.
....
​[FIRM, LOW]
I'm not the proof that you're a good person.
​[COLD, INTENSE]
Try put me there again.
And I'll tear myself to nothing.
Infront of you .
​[FRAGILE]
you don't know how to love.
[BARE]
but it's all I know love to be.
​[BRIDGE]
[RAW, LOW]
I hate it
hate what I've done.
​[HUSHED]
I thought I was the one who didn't do this
​[HEAVY PAUSE]
But....
..
[EXHALED]
..I did.
​[OUTRO]
[NUMB]
the hurt I sowed.
this monster in me.
​[STEADY]
Proof of this life performed.
​[FADING]
and this is the cost..
..
this is the cost
…this is my cost
​[CLOSE MIC, WHISPER]
still I ask quietly to be seen
​[FINAL CHORUS]
[BARE]
I still believe
[WEAK]
I still believe
[WARMER]
I still believe
[BREATH]
i believe.