This is the start
The year your feet slow
but the world rushes in
Into your heart
Into your heart
This is the start
A town, a home, you never chose to be born in
And every exit distant as the Moon
The skin stretched too thin
When the wounds are still raw
The rules you’ve not learned
And the boundaries you don’t draw
When you don’t know where they stop and where you start

Hang in there
None of us got through this without scars
But this is just the start, this is just the start

Hang in there
Even as it rips out your heart
Please just try to get through this part
This is just the start, this is just the start

That boy, who pins you to the wall spits in your face
In four years’ time he turns out to be gay
You were just a way to hide the scent
It isn’t about you at all
That girl, the one that seems so confident and pretty
But secretly she throws up every meal
she laughs and calls you stupid fat and ugly
It isn’t about you at all
so
hang in there
As your body pulls you upwards
Hang in there
Keep your eyes on the floor
Hang in there
These years are full of trapdoors
Hang in there
One day the sky will clear

In the meantime you can walk away
It’s ok to say no
It’s ok not to be what they think you are

Hang in there
Even as it rips out your heart
Please just try to get through this part
This is just the start.
Hang in there
None of us got through this without scars
But this is just the start, this is just the start

Hang in there
None of us got through this without scars
But this is just the start, this is just the start
Hang in there
Please just try to get through this part
Even as it rips out your heart
This is just the start

This is just the start
This is just the start