"Elio" lyrics

Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio

My art isn't mine
'Cause I know that you're tuning in
All the things I'd like to sing
You tell me are a sin
Water myself down for you
Filter my own thoughts
Lace the page in metaphor
Let you think I'm not who I am
Who I am

But I'm sick of fairy tales and cryptids
Carefully vague, ambiguous
Just once I'll say just how it is
Each day I remind myself this

I am my soul
I'm not my body or name
But Elio would be my choice if I could change
I'd still be the same, all except my name
My name would resonate
My name, my name, my name

Elio
Elio

Spiderman and Peter Pan
I wished I felt like me
Take the pen and write again
A cryptid running free
Give it time, another rhyme
And maybe then I'll see
Nothing's wrong with me at all
The box doesn't fit me
I'd love to be as free as a boy
As a boy

And I'm sick of fairy tales and cryptids
All to just conceal a secret
Really made me feel like this is
Somehow about you, it isn't
It isn't

I am my soul
I'm not my body or name
But Elio
Would be my choice if I could change
I'd still be the same
All except my name
My name would resonate
My name, my name, my name

Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio
Elio

Elio
Please don't let me go
Elio
Please don't let me go
Elio
Please don't let me go
Elio

I know there's nothing I can do
If I wanna still talk to you
But at least I finally told my truth