[Verse 1]

Sometimes I'd hear a melody

A sound of what could be

Had I not placed myself down at your feet to suit your every whim

Oh, the best part is that if I

Could go back and tell those lies

I'd do it all again, and again, and again, and again

It was not strength, it was not love

It was not passion, it's a drug

To fill a cavity of you, me, every mortal on this earth

Was I too weak? Was I too strong?

Was I the paradox of song?

Appearing headstrong publicly

Submit my soul in privacy

I was not the first to live this life

I was not the first to hide my light

We're talking thousands of years

Of hidden dreams, and hidden rights

You gave your all, it wasn't enough

I gave my all, it wasn't enough

And now we're nothing

I am nothing at all

[Chorus]

I am nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

I am but light, no accolade

I have no pretense, little faith

Nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

And from the sweetest kind of nothing comes the very thing we are

[Verse 2]

I hear an aching in the dark

I hear a memory of the box that I let you put me in

'Til I suffocated with the weight of my own dream

It was not right, it was not fair

You made it your business not to care

I do not think that you remember or indeed you ever will

Us who bear you to be weak

Commit the kind of crimes you seek

Seek the kind of crimes you do to prove the strength we could not give to you

Even our mothers of the school

Teaching us to hide our truth

To give up everything, yes everything for little in return

To fear the power of my will

To shame the body that I'm in

To fear the vision of a life where I am equal to him

It's like the mud of a thousand years

Thickened every tear

Now I release it, cleanse my vision

Shake off everything

[Chorus]

I am nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

I am but light, no accolade

I have no pretense, little faith

Nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

And from the sweetest kind of nothing comes the very thing we are

[Verse 3]

You were right on this, you know

To find your bliss is to find your flow

Always I sought this from outside

The permission to be alright

How could it ever come from you?

Just as frightened as me too

This is a partnership with

She, creator, merges us as two

Then forced us desperately apart

To mend these sick and ugly hearts

And flood the daylight in

The clarity that surfaces as art

There are two chords, there is a word

There is the power to be heard

There is the joy, there is the choice

And privilege to wear my heart

[Chorus]

I am nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

I am but light, no accolade

I have no pretense, little faith

Nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

And from the sweetest kind of nothing comes the very thing we are

[Chorus]

Nothing, nothing at all

I am nothing, nothing at all

I am but light, no accolade

I have no pretense, little faith

Nothing, nothing at all

Nothing, nothing at all

And from the sweetest kind of nothing comes everything we are