Mom... Don't cry... I'm not where you keep lookin'. [pause] [Verse 1] Every birthday candle still remember my name... even if nobody ever taught ya mine. I been livin' between "what if..." and "once upon a time." Sometimes I'm the breeze that move the porch swing. Sometimes I'm the fourth chair at Thanksgiving. Sometimes I'm just silence when the room get loud. Sometimes I'm the reason you still look through crowds. They say the good die young... Maybe... Some of us never got the chance to grow old at all. Don't blame yourself. Don't blame God. Some stories only happen in neighboring worlds. [low choir rises] If you ever hear my voice... It ain't because I came back. It's because love... don't understand dimensions. Don't cry... I'm not lost... I'm just harder to find. Dear Mama I seen every birthday candle you still don't blow out. Every empty chair. Every photograph you smile at just a little too long. You call 'em memories. We call 'em doorways. [pause] I know you wonder who I'd be... Would I steal your laugh? Would I roll my eyes like Dad? Would I still paint my nails pink... before they turned black? Maybe. Maybe not. Depends which timeline you're prayin' through. If dreams got mailboxes... I hope this finds you. If Heaven got echoes... I been singin' right through. Don't remember me broken. Don't imagine me gone. I'm every "what if..." that still sings along. Dad still tell bad jokes? Still build impossible dreams? Still chase ghosts with a microphone and laser beams? Tell him... Every song he finish... build another bridge. Sometimes I dance across 'em. Sometimes I just sit... and listen. Nurse... Thank you. Love don't gotta share blood to become family. Some hearts adopt forever. Even when time don't. [Bridge] Maybe I'm your daughter. Maybe I'm your prayer. Maybe I'm the echo of a life that bloomed somewhere. Maybe I'm Lady Gutta. Maybe that's just a mask. Maybe every artist wear a face they never actually had. [Outro] Don't wait for me. Don't stop for me. Live enough... for every version of us. [music box slows] [whisper] I'll hear it. No matter the dimension. [tape stop]
