Áine Tyrrell - PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU Lyrics

I'm a miracle standing on this stage
I was musical yep from a very early age
The patterns of music they set in my brain
And the complexity of adult behaviours did the same
The shit I'm about to tell you I been through
Doesn't lead down the path to me in front of you
Statistically I'm way more likely
To be unwell physically, financially, emotionally
And yeah I might be a little bit crazy
But a lot of the adults in my life they failed me
Had to raise myself up
Raise myself up
Grow myself up
On my way up
Raise myself up
Raise myself up
Grow myself up
On my way up

I fought so hard cause of people like me and you
People like me and you
And the shit we been through
We don't get to turn around very often
To remind each other that you can too
But if I am standing here,
I'm telling you now,
You can too

I'm a miracle
You're a miracle
I'm a miracle
You're a miracle

Well I didn't always believe
Sometimes I looked in the mirror
And I couldn't see this queen
All I could see was the shadows of the men
And the corners of my life that they lurked again
Assaulted in the studio
Assaulted on the stage
Assaulted in my family
I should be a salty bitch, please
97% of me is love
The other 3%
Well it might f*ck you up
But I use this shit now to fertilse the ground
From which you see me rise
I rise up
You rise up
I glow up and
You come up too

I fought so hard cause of people like me and you
People like me and you
And the shit we been through
We don't get to turn around very often
To remind each other that you can too
But if I am standing here,
I'm telling you now,
You can too

I'm a miracle
You're a miracle
I'm a miracle
You're a miracle
I'm a miracle
You're a miracle
I'm a miracle
You're a miracle

Say it I can, say it I can, say it I can
Say it I can too
Say it I can, say it I can, say it I can
Say it I can too
Say it I can, say it I can, say it I can
Say it I can too
Say it I can, say it I can, say it I can
Say it I can too
I can

I want to see you soar
I believe in you
You're the hardest working motherf*cker I know
You deserve your cheeks to be that sore
From all the smiles you kept in before
From the struggle, the juggle,
The real, the hustle
Comes the most phenomenal wonderful of people
I know, I know, I know
Sometimes it can feel so heavy
It can hurt so deeply
It can sting so sharply
But maybe, just maybe, maybe
I can be a little light that you see
Off on the distance on your road to the possibility

Cause if someone like me,
If someone like me
Rose in spite of the heavy
In spite of the shame, the trauma and the family
In spite that I'm an immigrant living off country
In spite of the fact I'm raising my babies up through archaic systems not there to protect us

Me and my three grew tight and thick
They only got me, my grit, my grace, my music
We are the definition of resilience
Unnecessarily hard journey yes
But we are all it means to be human
And I fought so hard
I fought so hard
Cause of people like me and you
People like me and you and the shit we've been through
We don't get to turn around very often
To remind each other that you can too
But if I am standing here,
I'm telling you now,
You can too
You can
You can too"