Synthwave Cutting Class Movie Tribute Music Video– I Know Who I Am | RetroSync

Lyrics: 

[Verse 1]

I came back from somewhere no one asks about

With quiet in my hands and something in my chest

The hallways all remembered what I'd left as

And nobody was rushing to forget

[Pre-Chorus]

She looks at me like maybe I'm still human

Like the thing I carry hasn't won

[Chorus]

I know what I am

I know what lives behind my eyes

I know why they watch me in the hallways

I know what they're looking for inside

But she sees something other than the story

Something past the edges and the dark

I know what I am

And I'm afraid that knowing

Isn't enough to keep her

Safe from what I am

[Verse 2]

She has a boy who holds her hand correctly

Who walks her to the places she should go

I watch them from the far end of the corridor

Wanting what I know I shouldn't know

[Pre-Chorus]

There's a version of me made for someone steady

But that version didn't make it back with me

[Chorus]

I know what I am

I know what lives behind my eyes

I know why the teachers watch me sideways

I know what they think they recognize

But she laughs at something I said on a Tuesday

Like I'm just a boy and nothing more

I know what I am

And I'm afraid that her not knowing

Is the most dangerous thing

She's ever done

[Bridge]

Maybe every boy who's been away somewhere

Comes back carrying a door he can't explain

Maybe love looks different from the outside

Maybe I've been reading it all wrong

Maybe she's not saving me from anything

Maybe I'm the one

Who has to save her

From me

[Final Chorus ]

I know what I am

I know what flickers in my eyes

I know the shape of every dark thing in me

I've traced it like a map I can't disguise

But she's standing at the edge of something beautiful

And I won't be the reason that she falls

I know what I am

And for the first time knowing

Feels like something close

To letting go

Of all of it

All of it

[Outro]

All of it

All of it