There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
Glass shards of it have already been broken long ago,
So, all you’ve got left is the filament that still waits to glow
You need this light or, so you’ve been told
The absence of it makes it so dark you can barely see your toes
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
A group of friends can give you the shine of their light
They easily wear their lights on their heads
But it never lasts long
You can eat, sleep, and do what humans do
But you’re always going to miss what life really is
And maybe you can go outside and play
But you never had a reason to anyway
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
The world is too bright, and you’re always dim
With the crowds denying a shattered bulb
With a flawed filament
Deep inside your soul you know it glows
You’ve felt it before, but nobody knows
Because you’ve got to be alone
For the small little light to spark up and show
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
Maybe it needs isolation and time
But even alone it doesn’t even shine
Sure, it sparks up
But it never stays
Like fireworks in the warm night sky
That come once a year
Your retinas are scorched
And then it disappears
Maybe your light just isn’t for you
Or maybe it’s a destiny that will never come true
Or a dream given up
Maybe the light can never glow without force
Harsh words and cruel gestures
Poking bones and suffering through lectures
On how to restore this filament, this light in your heart
But it never works
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
It\'s gotta turn on somehow, you did it before
But it was when you felt like you truly had been one with yourself
And the grass that lies beneath your feet
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
You found out a solution, but it sounds really wrong
You take the little plier and cut the tangled wires of your veins
Trying to escape your body to get to this light
This filament
There are no wires that need to be cut now
But the light still won\'t budge
So, you decide on something stronger
You slide your finger across the tip of the long blade
With this newly brought tool, you can escape your cage.
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
You impale the blade into your heart
And wiggle it around
It touches the part
The light
The filament
And you finally glow
A bright, rainbow light shedding out through the house
A goodbye note to your light-having friends on the couch
A tune so happy it can cure disease
And you, left sitting there, with your final last breath you leave
Yet it dies down
And the house is gray—
void of sound
The only color a crimson red
And clear shards of what used to be your bulb
The filament burned out, turned into mold
The light leaves it all behind, into ashes it grew
Why?
Because there\'s simply no you.
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
There’s a light inside your heart and you’ve gotta turn it on
There\'s a light inside your heart
And you’ve turned it on wrong.