Strangers Help Me Breathe

Strangers help me breathe
Oh oh
Blue star on my wrist
One more breath

Coat check took my jacket
And a year of my life
His hoodie's still hanging
On the back of my door

I paid the cover
With my hands still shaking
First Friday flying solo
Since the war

Two winters of us
Folded in a pocket
One ticket stub
I couldn't throw away

Nobody in this line
Knows what I carried
Nobody's asking
Why I came alone

The bass is bleeding
Through the wall like weather
The doorman stamps
A small blue star on me

One breath
One door
One story ending
And a hundred I could be

I almost hid it
Almost turned for home
But the beat has footsteps
And it found my own

So turn it up
Cause I can't say it low

Strangers help me breathe
Help me breathe
Hands in the air with me
Nobody knows my name tonight
That blue star says I'm free

Whoa oh
Help me breathe
Help me breathe
Whoa oh
Carry me away

Second song in
And my feet remember
I move like the hurt
Is not my own

A girl I've never met
Screams the words beside me
Hands me half the chorus
Like a loan

I quit scanning corners
For a missing person
Quit checking on a phone
That doesn't ring

The DJ pulls the floor out
For a second
A thousand voices
Holding up the line

When it drops
The whole room lands together
And for four whole minutes
I am fine

Every stranger singing
Is a witness
That I'm still here
And I can still sing

The mirror ball is throwing
Little pieces
Scattered light
On every face the same

Maybe every heart in here
Is carrying something
And nobody came
To ask my name

I almost hid it
Almost turned for home
But the beat has footsteps
And it found my own

So turn it up
Cause I can't say it low

Strangers help me breathe
Help me breathe
Hands in the air with me
Nobody knows my name tonight
That blue star says I'm free

Whoa oh
Help me breathe
Help me breathe
Whoa oh
Carry me away
Carry me

One more breath
One more breath
One more whoa oh
Whoa oh

I came in here
Half a person
Dressed up
Like I wasn't cut

But a room
Can hold you honest
When your own two hands
Cannot

I'm not asking
For a storybook ending
I just need tonight to count
Count it

Here's the line
I couldn't say before
I am not over it
But I am not on the floor

Hands up
Hands up
Lights down
Lights down

If you're broken
And you're dancing
Make a sound
Hey

If you walked in here
Alone tonight
Look around
Look around

Room full of strangers
Strangers
Strangers help me breathe
Breathe

A hundred hands
In the air with me
Nobody knows my name
And I am free
Free

Strangers help me breathe
Carry me
Carry me

One blue star
Before the morning
One more truth
In my own two hands

Strangers help me breathe