They look at me like I'm unfinished
Like I don't know the weight of my own name
Every word I speak gets smaller
Just because I haven't aged
They say you'll understand one day
Like I'm blind instead of young
But I feel everything too deeply
I've known this ache since I was one

I'm full of fire
Full of questions
Full of things I want to try
But they call it inexperience
When it's just another kind of sigh
Welcome to the graveyard grown
Where dreams go quiet one by one
Where passion dies to pay the rent
And hope gets buried by the Sun
Graveyard grown, remember this
It's where we trade our hearts for bones
You don't grow up, you learn to mourn
In the graveyard grown

I see it in the tired faces
In the way they learn to bend
They don't hate me for my dreaming
They just miss it in themselves
They had stars once, they had hunger
They had plans that felt alive
Now they measure life in hours
Just to barely get by
They warn me like it's kindness
Like they're saving me the fall
But all I hear is fear disguised
As wisdom after all

Welcome to the graveyard grown
Where dreams go quiet one by one
Where love gets small, ambition thins
And life becomes what must be done
Graveyard grown, say it slow
So you remember what you lost
You don't grow strong, you grow resigned
And pay the price and count the cost