The sparrow in my mouth

Keeps me from speaking out

And saying all the words i want

It holds me back to sing

When i would rather scream

My language wrapped inside a neat bow

I’ve grown a hard shell maybe so

Nothing could break me now

I’m not a criminal -

I just want the world to know

It’s hard to become young when you’ve grown

I don’t want to talk it out

Don’t want to cry out loud

I’d love for my hometown to let go

I’ve grown a hard shell maybe so

Nothing could break me now

We search for cures to help us

Return to feeling young

Battle it out to regain softness

I want to be less hopeless

Throw wind at being cautious

I’m trying to be less thoughtless

My shadow’s been working against me

It keeps pulling on my arm

I wish that one day it would leave me

To start over alone

Windows cave around

All my family bound

To who they used to be before

My mother’s softly wrapped

In wrinkles so that

They start to keep her warmer now

This whole time she was freezing and we didn’t even know

She’s grown a hard shell maybe so

Nothing could break her now

She’ll be a ghost so soon and i’m not afraid to go but i don’t want to watch her hurt