[Intro] Everything weighs on me, silence pressing in my chest. My thoughts are tearing me apart, I drift through endless shadows, no direction left. [Verse 1] They call my name like a force I can’t evade, I’m trapped in a life I have long come to hate. My smile sits like a suit, custom-made and fine, but beneath it, something rages, no longer theirs to define. They want a perfect son, who never breaks the mold, a son who does exactly as he's told. [Prechorus] I should become the image they need to see. But that I cannot be! [Chorus] When I shed the shell that held me tight when my masquerade finally takes its flight, when no one speaks my name aloud… Tell me— Will I still know myself, if I'm ever found? Who am I really? Who am I really? [Verse 2] Every glance a judgment that never gave me a voice, every praise a cage that silences my choice. I play the porcelain boy, careful not to crack the skin, while a storm inside me figths for the truth within. The role that was assigned, I can no longer bear, their expectations are a burden that steals all my air. [Prechorus] I should become the image they need to see. But that I will not be! [Chorus 2] When my strength begins to feel like weakness, when the shell of my being shows its true bleakness, when no one speaks my name aloud… Tell me— Will I still know myself, if I'm ever found? Who am I really? Who am I really? [Bridge] Perhaps I can be more than just a fleeting sight, more than the shadow that covers me in the night. Perhaps somewhere beats a heart that speaks to me, that feels what I'm missing, what I long to be. ...what I long to be. [Breakdown] I'm nothing more! My name fades away. The colors of my portrait start to run. My thoughts become silent. Everything inside me turns to smoke, like dust in the light. Nothing remains and I am dissolving— But then… [Rebirth] You reached out to me... and showed me that I can be someone true. I started to feel again, that I am alive! Through your eyes I see myself now crystal clear. A spark of light is shining there, where I thought nothing lived but fear. [Coda] You looked at me, and I fell into fragments. You gathered them, put me back together. Every crack you fill with your own gentle grace, until the shadows finally leave my face. And finally I know who I want to be! (who I want to be…) (who I want to be…)
