Grace Petrie - Changing Shape lyrics

I’ve come to show you every scar
My soul achieved since birth
To offer up my heart and all
It's contents to the earth
So you can give it all a price tag
And tell me what I’m worth
But, I’m just trying to make you love me

I used to think I wrote my words
To try and make a spark
To light the way for others who
Were struggling in the dark
But now I know I only write them
In the hope they’ll leave a mark
Yeah, I’m just trying to make you love me

So tie me to a chair
I want to climb the walls
I opened up the floodgates
And I got waterfalls
I took everything that I learned and
I sung it out on tape
For I used to be a child and
Now I’m just a different shape
Yeah, I used to be a child and
Now I’m just a different shape

Laying awake in bed last night it
Hit me in a flash
The reason that I wear my pain
Like badges on a sash
The reason that I wear it like
A forehead cross of ash
Is I’m trying to make you love me

To every long lost friend I
Never meant to drift apart
To every single in-crowd that I’ll
Never be a part
To every enemy and every girl
That broke my heart
I was just trying to make you love me

So tie me to a chair
I want to climb the walls
I opened up the floodgates
And I got waterfalls
I took all of my broken heart and
I sung it out on tape
Because once I fell in love and
I fell out a different shape
Oh, every time I fell in love
I fell out a different shape

For every time I’ve ever
Felt myself under attack
For everything I wish I was
And all I’ll ever lack
Especially for you folks who are
Talking at the back
Can’t you see I’m dying to make you love me

But, I could use this microphone
For stories not like this
Where I’m not such a victim
You know I'd never take the risk
For when the curtain falls
Tomorrow calls and I’m just a narcissist
Who’s still trying to make you love me

So tie me to a chair
I want to climb the walls
I opened up the floodgates
And I got waterfalls
I took everything that I had and
I sung it out on tape
Everybody else is ageing
I think that I’m just changing shape
Oh, everybody else is growing
It feels like I’m just changing shape