If I Don’t Wake Up Tomorrow

If I don't wake up tomorrow, would anybody cry?

Would they even notice I was gone, or just let it pass them by?

Mama, I still dream of you in that hospital bed

I never said goodbye, I just held your hand instead

Daddy's still a stranger, though we share the same last name

He walks right past my silence, like he’s never felt my pain

And my sister’s the only light in this house of broken walls

We whisper in the dark, afraid to speak at all

If I don't wake up tomorrow, let the rain fall like my tears

Carve my name in the silence I’ve been screaming all these years

You can tell them I was tired, tell them I just slipped away

'Cause this world forgot to love me, and I couldn’t make it stay

He said he loved me once, then he left me in the cold

Used my heart for shelter, but it broke before it sold

And the bruises on my body never showed the worst of all

It’s the wounds you cannot see that make you want to fall

I wrote letters to the stars, hoping one would write me back

But even the heavens kept their distance, afraid to face the cracks

If loving me was heavy, then leaving must be light

So I’ll close my eyes in silence and disappear tonight

If I don't wake up tomorrow, let the rain fall like my tears

Carve my name in the silence I’ve been screaming all these years

You can tell them I was tired, tell them I just slipped away

'Cause this world forgot to love me, and I couldn’t make it stay

And if a song remains when I’m no longer near

Let it carry all the words they refused to hear

If I don’t wake up tomorrow… maybe then they’ll see

I was more than just the pain they never set free

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