00:00They told me my song was a shipwreck.
00:03That if I spoke my truth,
00:06the tides would rise and pull my family's house into the deep.
00:10I stayed in the shadows.
00:12I practiced the silence.
00:14I watched the world sail by, singing of gold and girls.
00:19While I, I hummed of moonlight and hymn.
00:24But a secret is just a storm with no place to go.
00:28Eventually, you have to let it rain.
00:32I opened my mouth.
00:34I waited for the sky to fall.
00:36I waited for the world to break.
00:39But the ships didn't sink.
00:41The earth didn't shake.
00:43The world stayed exactly where it was.
00:46The only thing I destroyed
00:49was the ghost of the boy they wanted me to be.
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