Mirror in My Chest

Lyrics

Verse 1
I wake up tired
Same cracked ceiling
Same old shadow
Same bad feeling

I keep my name
Like a note in my pocket
Folded too long
Still I can’t lock it

Mama said
Boy, don’t you lose you
But I been lost
Since I knew how to choose

I smile in mirrors
Then look away
Like somebody else
Got my face today

Pre-Chorus
If you hear me
I’m still here
Under the noise
Under the fear

I’m not done
I’m not dead
Just a house full of ghosts
In my head

Chorus
I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
Take me back to the man
That I was before it all went wrong

I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
If I can say my own name
Maybe I can be set free

Verse 2
There’s a kid in me
With a split lip grin
Hide-and-seek heart
Never learned to win

Too many nights
With my back to the door
Countin’ my scars
On the bedroom floor

I learned to laugh
When it hurt the most
Kept my pain
Like a second ghost

Now every memory
Hits like rain on glass
I reach for my future
And it won’t hold fast

Pre-Chorus
If you see me
Don’t look through
I been buried
In what I knew

I’m not gone
I’m not through
I’m just trying to find
What’s true

Chorus
I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
Take me back to the man
That I was before it all went wrong

I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
If I can say my own name
Maybe I can be set free

Bridge
Hands in the dark
Heart on the floor
I don’t wanna fight
This war anymore

If I break open
Let the truth spill out
Maybe the hurt
Can drain me out

I hear that kid
He’s calling me home
Says, “you can come back
You don’t need to roam”

Final Chorus
I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
Take me back to the man
That I was before it all went wrong

I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
If I can say my own name
Maybe I can be set free

I just wanna belong
I just wanna belong
Let the wreckage go
Let the real me breathe free