i exist i exist i exist

Baby please

It's in the way you speak

Forming words so easily

And I think of the way you think

It keeps me from falling asleep

In that grave I call a bed

Until you called me up and said

"I haven't stopped crying

My father's been drinking

I need a place to stay

I don't want to be here

He's saying the words that

He promised he would never say

That liquid he consumes

Makes him speak the truth"

And I said "No, it's not that at all

It's that bottle of lies for a troubled heart

It's standing on the edge of a mountain top

Screaming anything he wants

Like, "Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me"

Because I exist, I exist, I exist, I exist, I exist"

I wake up in the hallway, I'm looking for sunlight

With rays that will cure me of the pain that keeps my lungs tight

Ignoring the voices and feelings that tell me

To get out of this house

I can't make them stop

I'm just like my mom

And you said, "No, these demons will fall

You're so precious to us all"

And I said, "I, I can't do this alone

I still need you to hold

So don't let go, don't let go, don't let go, don't let go, don't let go"

'Cause I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid"

"So don't let go, don't let go, don't let go, don't let go, don't let go"

"Because I exist, I exist, I exist, I exist, I exist"