I'm just a tense boy sitting pretty with a pencil in hand

I'm trying to deal with all the turmoil and the issues I have

I'm not at risk in any war but there's no peace I can find

Cause there are feelings wreaking havoc in this body of mine

And I get so caught up

In telling others what

They need to do to escape

And then they're thankful but

I am a fraud that's just

Giving advice I can't take

Come mirror but change my face

Come water but don't meet my gaze

Come echo a different name

Just give me a reflection I can blame

And now I'm laying in my bed at 2AM every night

Trying to close my eyes and go to sleep and shut up my mind

Cause there's a thought that keeps reminding me of things I don't like

And it comes one, three, five times

And I get so caught up

In telling others what

They need to do to escape

Come mirror but change my face

Come water but don't meet my gaze

Come echo a different name

Just give me a reflection I can blame

These are the moments when I tell you to "be calm"

"You'll find solutions around the next corner"

"Feeling like this yeah it's all understandable"

"Don't think too much, in the end we're just animals"

"Sometimes we just walk in different directions"

"Got to learn to love all our imperfections"

Gathering everything in my collection

of things I can try to tell my own reflection