Happy to Be Here - Julien Baker

If I could do what I want I’d become an electrician

I’d climb inside my head and I’d rearrange the wires in my brain

A different me would be inhabiting this body

Have two cars, a garage, a job and I would go to church on Sunday

A diagram of faulty circuitry explains how I was made

And now the engineer is listening as I voice all my complaints

From an orchestra of shaking metal keeping me awake

I was just wondering if there was any way that you made a mistake

Because I miss it the way that I miss nicotine

If it makes me feel better, how bad can it be?

Well I heard there’s a fix for everything

Then why, then why, then why, then why not me?

The 1st of April saw the sickening repair

Wore my best shirt to the clinic decorated with the laminate name

No one is laughing from an audience of folding plastic chairs

And I’m not fooled when you tell me that you’re glad I came

Am I just honest to admit or just a hypocrite?

I know I should be being optimistic but I’m doubtful I can change

Grit my teeth and try to act deserving

When I know there’s nowhere I can hide from your humiliating grace

Cause if you swear that it’s true then I have to believe

What I hear evangelicals say on TV

And if there’s enough left after everyone else

Then why, then why, then why, then why not me?