I was a quiet kid in a borrowed room Counting coins in a pillowcase by the light of the moon The woman who took me in sat down on my bed Said, "One day you'll find the others like you," that's all she said "And when you do, don't you dare get small Build a place with the doors wide open for them all." So I wore every face that the world handed me Chameleon boy, I was whoever you needed me to be Thirty-eight years running on a borrowed name Till a word on a paper said I wasn't to blame Not broken, not lazy, not too much to hold, Just a different kind of wiring nobody ever told Now I'm raising up a banner, I'm lighting up the street For every kid who masked so long they forgot their own heartbeat Welcome to Hyperfocus House! Leave the mask at the door We're the loud ones, the quiet ones, The ones they called "too much" before We don't just hold you, we charge you, You leave stronger than you came Welcome to Hyperfocus House, Where nobody's ashamed! There's the Zone when your mind locks in like a flame The Rabbit Hole where your obsessions have a name The Release when the storm's too big to keep inside The Couch for the nights you need somebody by your side Bring your stims and your scripts and your forty open tabs Bring the shutdowns, the burnouts, the beautiful gaps I spent my whole life zipped up. Pulled it tight so nobody saw the wiring. Then my daughter looked at me like I was already enough, and I started finallylivingin the now.. God didn't make a mistake when He made your mind. He made a frequency. So raise it up, raise it up, Every voice they told to hush Raise it up, raise it up, Fear don't get a key to us! Welcome to Hyperfocus House! Leave the mask at the door We're the misfits, the misread, The ones who don't fit anymore A voice to the voiceless, Now the whole world's gonna hear Welcome to Hyperfocus House, We live outside of fear! You'll leave more charged than when you arrived. She was right. I found the others. Welcome home.
