As a Child

Let me just tell you, I really should go back to sleep It's not that I'm ungrateful, I have too many memories to keep I wish you could feel just how heavy I am all the time Sometimes when I smile, I bite my lip so I don't cry And it burns for a while And it hurts all the more when you carry the world as a child All that I wanted is to talk to someone who is dead But unfortunately I can't call him so I sing instead I'd never tell you to cover yourself in a lie But I will still bite my lip harder so that I don't cry And it burns for a while And it hurts all the more when you carry the world as a child And I burn for myself 'Cause I know that I shouldn't when it's screaming at me to be felt And we burn all the time 'Cause it hurts all the more when we carry the world as a child