ICU - Citizen Soldier

You’ve been hurting in a million ways

No one else can see

'Cause no one took 'em serious

Till the injuries

So you took it out of guts it into yours

And threw up the prescription on the bathroom floor

You didn’t wanna hurt no more

I see you

Crying it

Screaming through a breathing tube

Held again to this place

I see you

Wondering how you came unclothed

Feeling like your whole life’s screwed

«Who could love me this way?»

It couldn’t cure a single word they said in that panic room

When every day all of your darkest thoughts kept on coming through

Lying in the ICU

You’ve been carving maps into your skin

To make the sickness show

A kind of suffering that never fit

A diagnostic code

So you pictured all the faces when they heard the news

Thought your body in a bag would be enough to prove

That this was real and not some sad excuse

I see you

Crying it

Screaming through a breathing tube

Held again to this place

I see you

Wondering how you came unclothed

Feeling like your whole life’s screwed

«Who could love me this way?»

It couldn’t cure a single word they said in that panic room («Hey kid,

are you okay? «)

When every day all of your darkest thoughts kept on coming through

I see you trying not to cry

Just wishing you had not survived

But don’t give up, give it a little time

Some day you’ll see that you are worth this fight

I see you wide awake all night

A million, not even one reply

But don’t give up 'cause there’s another side

And you still have a lot of songs to write

I see you

Crying it

Screaming through a breathing tube

Held again to this place

I see you

Wondering how you came unclothed

Feeling like your whole life’s screwed

«Who could love me this way?»

It couldn’t cure a single word they said in that panic room

When every day all of your darkest thoughts kept on coming through

Lying in the ICU