[Verse 1:Blake Swift]
Hold your breath
While you watch me fall
It’s easier to
Say nothing at all
I need a friend
Playing pretend’s not working
These pills are useless
And the shadows keep lurking
Let me go
There’s nothing left inside
To run and hide
Is all I know to survive
The nightmare won’t end
This life grow colder
Come wake me up
When it’s all over
[Chorus]
Some of us made it
But no one deserved it
I’m silent,I’m screaming
Sticks and Stones was
The rhyme that they taught us
To fight off our monsters
To help numb the darkness
But what they forgot was
Is you don’t need to break my bones
For you to break me
The voices won’t stop
Don’t let me be alone
Please someone
I just wanna go back home
[Verse 2]
Lock the door
I’m rotting in my room
I hope tomorrow
Doesn’t come to soon
My tears ran dry
My heart’s suffocating
The bruises and I
Are slowly fading
Make it stop
There’s whispers in my head
The mirrors echo
Everything they’ve said
To rise and shine is
So hard to do
When all the light
Has been taken from you
[Chorus]
Some of us made it
But no one deserved it
I’m silent,I’m screaming
Sticks and Stones was
The rhyme that they taught us
To fight off our monsters
To help numb the darkness
But what they forgot was
Is you don’t need to break my bones
For you to break me
The voices won’t stop
Don’t let me be alone
Please someone
I just wanna go back home
[Bridge: Shane Koyczan]
I remember every story
They wrote on my back
Bruises like words tattooed
Into my skin in blue and black ink
I remember every kitchen sink
Surgery where family had to
Stitch me back together
I remember every happily ever
After that never came to pa**
We didn’t go to school
In fairy tales
We went to school in all the gory
Details of a horror story while
Monsters made us victims
Of their comedy
We,the recipients of their punch
Lines they hung insults around
Our necks like signs inviting everyone
To join in
Their words were invisible ink
That they tattooed on our skin
[Chorus]
Some of us made it
But no one deserved it
I’m silent,I’m screaming
Sticks and Stones was
The rhyme that they taught us
To fight off our monsters
To help numb the darkness
But what they forgot was
Is you don’t need to break my bones
For you to break me
The voices won’t stop
Don’t let me be alone
Please someone
I just wanna go back.
I know that I’m stronger
Broken heart of a fighter
My scars remind me
That I’m a survivor
This life is a tough game
And I don’t wanna play it
I’m reaching for a hand
Help me make it
But It’s too much
So I give up
Just please don’t hate me
My letter’s on the pillow
With a kiss goodbye
I’m sorry, Mom,
But I promise that I tried