Know How It Hurts

Close my eyes and I am seven being told I cannot play

I used to think I'd get to heaven if I stayed out of the way

Now I don't trust the world a fraction

It's let us down too many times

I have an insecure attachment style and my body isn't mine

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

It's hard to describe it, you don't have the words

We still have to fight it, we still have to work

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

(I know how it hurts)

Is it all mass distraction?

It's my body, it's my choice

It's just a different kind of playground now

Where they still don't hear my voice

Every time we think we're climbing

We get pushed back down the stairs

In every room the quiet killer

It's a feeling that's always there

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

It's hard to describe it, you don't have the words

We still have to fight it, we still have to work

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

(I know how it hurts)

And I'm screaming in my dream and no one turns around

It's a violent undercurrent, it's a crash without a sound

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

It's hard to describe it, you don't have the words

We still have to fight it, we still have to work

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

(I know how it hurts)

You don't have to hide it, I know how it hurts

(I know how it hurts)