As a Child - Madeline The Person

Lyrics by：Madeline Holste

Let me just tell you I really should go back to sleep

It's not that I'm ungrateful

I have too many memories to keep

I wish you could feel just how heavy

I am all the time

Sometimes when I smile I bite my lip so I don't cry

And it burns for a while

And it hurts all the more

When you carry the world as a child

All that I've wanted is to talk to someone who is dead

But unfortunately I can't call him

So I sing instead

Though I'd never tell you to cover yourself in a lie

But I will still bite my lip harder

So that I don't cry

And it burns for a while

And it hurts all the more

When you carry the world as a child

And I burn for myself

'Cause I know that I should

When it's screaming at me to be felt

And we burn all the time

'Cause it hurts all the more

When we carry the world as a child