Satch - Save Your Breath Lyrics

"How do people change their minds about trans issues
How do people change their minds about LGBTQ issues"

Football in the playground
Jumpers for the goalposts
Everybody's Messi now
Up until the bell goes
Fall In line for next class
Go get on our sports kits
I act like I can't be arsed
But that's isn't really it

All at once the winds at my back
My tongues come unlatched
I'm hearing myself coming through
In that out of body moment
Was the first time I felt home but
These words took me down a peg or two

Save your breath (If you really have say it)
Swallow it down (If you feel the truth coming up)
Play pretend (Till the feelings dissipated)
All things must pass

"You couldn't come out as trans at fifteen
There was no language"

I'm hiding in the background
Grandma's got her camera out
Everybody's messy now
What Christmas has to be about
I'm falling for the photograph
Till someone pulls me up
They're falling for my photograph
Till I pull everybody up

Now there's a hurricane at my spine
My tongue speaks my mind
A missed collaboration from the two
In that out of body minute
Saw myself wait for the critics
To shut me up with this review

Save your breath (If you really have say it)
Swallow it down (If you feel the truth coming up)
Play pretend (Till the feelings dissipated)
All things must pass

"It's a catch twenty-two because its my super power
And also like it's the Pandora's box for me
I'm so open that people can really see me
But being that open means people can really get inside
So I have to set up those kinds of guards
To keep people from getting in
Because it really, really, really, really, really hurts
It really impacts me
And it touches all those deep seeded beliefs
That I still have even all these years later
That I'm not worthy of being loved
That I am, That I am a monster
Or whatever the worst things they say about me are
You know I think that's part of the trans psyche"

Driving to my home town
I stop at the pharmacy
Bandage up my chest
Bound so that I can finally breathe
My mum says oh hi
As she wasn't expecting me
I tell who I am
As tears roll down her cheeks

A tornado SPINS in her mind
Worried for what i'll find
So she protests her arguments
In that out of body moment
I took my life and owned it
This is what I said...

Save your breath (If you really have say it)
Swallow it down (If you feel things coming up)
Play pretend (Till the feelings dissipated)
All things must pass

Save your breath (If you really have say it)
Swallow it down (If you feel the truth coming up)
Play pretend (Till the feelings dissipated)
All things must pass