Cross My Heart - Nevertheless

I can’t sleep

I can’t eat

If I give them what they want

Will they just let me be

Who I am?

I’m not like them

I’m sick of nodding my head

At the things that I can’t stand

This is it

Oh, my friends

I’ve tried so hard

But I cannot pretend

Cross my heart

Hope to make it out alive

Their helping hands

Look more like suicide

If I don’t make it out

Remember that I tried

Cross my heart

I hope to breathe this time

Day by day

Night by night

I sat alone with pen and page

Trying to do what’s right

God, I pray

Shed some light

'Cause if I burn

I want to burn out bright

You make all things new

And no one needs it like I do

I need You