[Verse 1] Nine years old, watched a grown woman collapse Her grief hit the floor; the whole room went black A child beneath water, the sea in my lungs Junes pulled me back from the kingdom of none I wonder if you’re somewhere breathing still You lent me your hands; I remember them still My father was a good man with a chemical war COVID took his body; I had locked the door [Verse 2] Years without mercy, then I carried you out Into the ambulance, too late to work out Two days till the silence became permanent I fed myself through a funeral, grief in my throat Ten kilos vanished; I swallowed my sobs While my little sister held me, I swallowed them all My grandmother, my grandfather—where did you all go? I wanted the grave to make room for my bones Belle, Beck, Mimi, Chill, Kong, Cin You loved me without asking what was wrong with him Loved me without telomere matching Just intuition and soul growing into one [Refrain] All the tears in the world, let them flood through me Sinking deep soaking deep insanely I am the prince of pain, the saddest boy’s refrain If sorrow is a religion, I pray and hymn it fluently Yet no one reads the scripture deep in my skin [Verse 3] M, we were a home that the world disassembled Two hands losing touch while the whole earth trembled No final sentence, just distance invades A love still alive in the things left unsaid I read every room, every semiotics smile Know too much to belong, stay estranged all the while Online or offline, I’m a ghost at every doom Too lucid for comfort, too human for shame [Refrain] All the tears in the world, let them flood through me Sinking deep soaking deep insanely I am the prince of pain, the saddest boy’s refrain If sorrow is a religion, I pray and hymn it fluently Yet no one reads the scripture deep in my skin [Finale — voice rising above strings and choir] Let every tear ever shed become an ocean Let every lost soul return as a stars I’ll sink through the cosmos, past time and creation To ask what we are, and what despair are for If God is the dreamer, and death is the dreaming If matter remembers each life it has known Then nothing is lost; it is changed into meaning And no one who loved me has vanished alone (Outro) Sunbather, moon chaser, king of empathy I give myself two seconds to breathe I give myself three minute to cry And go back to being a pains collector I just needed two seconds to be me And feel all the tears in this world sink me in