[Intro] Only the sound of quiet rain outside Blurring the glossary lines in the night [Verse 1] Downstairs the neon sign flickers and hums Smell of dark roast coffee and toasted crumbs Family road trips we never could make No photo albums for my quiet sake Golden child sister, taking the crown I’m just the wallflower nobody found Slipped through the shadows of expectations Trading my words for silent isolation [Chorus] Raindrops are racing down glass in my room Tracing the letters, escaping the gloom Dreaming of runways and jet-engine skies Boarding a flight where the lonely bird flies Out of this bedroom and into the blue [Verse 2] Keys in the ignition, I drive past the line To a school two districts over where no one is mine Hiding the girl from the diner on Main Living invisible, avoiding the rain Tucked in my textbook, a yellow sticky note "If you need someone to talk to," he wrote Shedding a light on this flickering heart Faint ray of sun where the old memories part [Chorus] Raindrops are tracing the edge of the frame Bleeding the ink as I whisper my name "I wanna open my wings to the light" Writing my secrets on paper so bright Sliding the envelope into his locker door [Bridge] Looking through glass at the wet asphalt street Gray suburban skyline under my feet Sent out my heart where the stormy winds blow Out in the west, there's a warm golden glow [Outro] Opening my book with the note still inside Soft sound of rain where I used to hide No longer trapped in the shadows I knew My secret is soaring into the blue
