Girl in the Oversized Hoodie

“Girl in the Oversized Hoodie” [Verse 1] Little weird girl with raccoon eyes Black eyeliner and a crooked smile Talking out loud to empty rooms Just to make the silence die awhile Spent whole nights inside her headphones Music loud enough to shake the walls Learned to hide inside her humor Before anybody saw it all [Verse 2] Too intense for quiet people Too emotional to hide So she turned herself sarcastic Like armor dipped in firelight Growing up and catching glimpses In the mirror late at night Her daddy’s smile across her face With her mama’s tired eyes [Chorus] For the girl in the oversized hoodie Laughing loud to keep from breaking The one who loved with teeth and claws Like abandonment was waiting For the weird little black-haired girl Making homes inside her songs You were never “too much,” baby You were carrying too much alone [Verse 3] She maladaptive daydreamed highways Kitchen shifts and neon signs Built herself from scraps of kindness People left behind sometimes Everybody called her dramatic But they never heard the war Inside the child still sitting cross-legged Waiting by a locked front door [Bridge] Now she’s older Still collecting wounded people Still trying to love everybody harder Than they know how to love themselves But she became the fucking firewall She broke curses with bare hands And every little girl who comes after Gets a softer place to land [Final Chorus] So here’s to the weird little goth girl With the hazel eyes and heavy heart The one who found more truth in music Than she ever found in being understood And somewhere underneath the woman Who jokes and swears and disappears There’s still a kid awake at midnight Whispering: “Please don’t leave me here.”