True Voice Rising

{clean

acoustic guitar arpeggios, soft ambient synth pad}

I see my face on the flyers

Static on the screen

They got the neighborhood searching for a ghost in the machine

Mom is probably crying

Dad is pacing up and down the floor

Looking at a bedroom that I don't belong in anymore

It's not anger, no,

it's not out of spite

I just finally found a place where I can breathe into the

night

I had to shed the skin of who you all wanted me

to be

To find the broken pieces of the actual me

But I know it looks like running Looking like a grand escape

But I was suffocating underneath your expectations' weight

It hurts to know I left a shadow in the room

It hurts to know that I left you all a sudden in

gloom But if I come back now,

I'm just giving up the ghost

I'm missing you the loudest where I need myself the most

So tell 'em I am safe,

but I am staying right here

Out of the radar,

clearing out of the fear I miss you in the morning,

miss you when the sun goes down

But I finally found my anchor in a completely different town Don't

look for me, don't follow the trace

I'm finally alive in this quiet place Yeah,

I'm staying right here

{soaring vocal hook} They think somebody took me

They think I'm trapped against my will

But I'm sitting on the porch,

waiting Watching the city standing still No ransom notes,

no bad guys Just cellular trace

Just a girl who had to vanish

Just to look herself in the face I miss Sunday dinners,

miss noise in the hall I miss the way my brothers used

to lean against the wall Yeah,

yeah, I know you're looking

I know you're calling out my name

{acoustic guitar fades out to silence}