Sign Language (feat. Wynter Gordon)

I wanna show you that I care
 But I don't have the nerve
 I wanna say I love you
 But I can't find the words
 I wish that you could know how I
 Really felt all of this time
 But no matter what I do
 You can't see the signs
 He was an average teen, he partied often and he sagged his jeans.
 Sat in the very back of the class so he could nap and dream
 And fantasize about the girl he was obsessed with
 The one who stole his heart and always kept it
 Cause ever since the seventh grade
 She was always standin' in his center stage
 But every time he tried to talk to her, she would just step away
 And though she never spoke to him, it didn't matter
 Cause Billy never liked the chit-chatter
 So what if a little passive? To him she was attractive
 He could sense a massive personality perfectly by the way she acted
 Plus she wrote poems for the paper every month
 It was the lines on the page that had him fallin' in love
 But he never told his friends, they would say that he was crazy
 So no one ever found out that Billy liked Amy
 He just gracefully endured, being blatantly ignored
 But sooner or later, Billy wouldn't take it anymore
 I wanna show you that I care
 But I don't have the nerve
 I wanna say I love you
 But I can't find the words
 I wish that you could know how I
 Really felt all of this time
 But no matter what I do
 You can't see the signs
 He was an average teen, he partied often and he sagged his jeans
 Sat in the very back of the class so he could nap and dream
 And fantasize about the girl he was obsessed with
 The one who stole his heart and always kept it
 So he's takin' his chances, day after day of wasted advances
 He was always lonely without a date for the dances
 'Till he decided that he would try to do something bold
 He would make his feelings known by reciting her a poem
 Like the poems she was publishing every month in the paper
 He grabbed a pen and pad and then he labored
 Sat and he crafted it, and then he practiced it, had to have it immaculate
 But half of it just ended up scribbled and trash basketed
 'Till he finally mastered it, and recited it perfectly
 Yo this was a life or death emergency
 But you can't be nervous, B, you could risk it all
 So you need to stand tall, and approach her in the hall (deep breath)
 "Yo what up tuts? I'm at the entrance of your palace
 And I think that I been starin' at aurora borealis
 You shine so bright that you could light up the sky
 And Columbus with a compass would get lost in your eyes"
 But her reaction was absurd
 All she did was stare back without sayin' a single word
 And gave him a weird look
 She tried sayin' something with her hands but she couldn't
 Cause she was carryin' books
 But that was all that it took, Billy was too crushed
 Had to run away so nobody would see the tears rush
 And for the rest of the week, he locked himself in his apartment
 Cause he didn't have the strength to face the world so broken-hearted
 After seven days of darkness, got a letter in the mail
 But before he even looked at it, he let that ship sail
 He was too concerned with all the sadness in his life
 So instead of a letter opener he grabbed a kitchen knife
 I wanna show you that I care
 But I don't have the nerve
 I wanna say I love you
 But I can't find the words
 I wish that you could know how I
 Really felt all of this time
 But no matter what I do
 You can't see the signs
 She was far from your average teen
 The quiet type who never had a scene
 Studied often and wrote poems for the school magazine
 She had a little secret and she always kept it
 There was a boy that she was obsessed with
 So when she wrote a poem for the school paper every month
 Every line on the page was dedicated to her crush
 But she never told her friends, they would say that it was silly
 So no one ever found out that Amy liked Billy
 'Till the day that Billy stopped her by her locker during school
 But she couldn't understand him and responded like a fool
 And gave him a weird look
 She tried doin' sign language, but she couldn't cause she was
 Carryin' all her books
 See, even though Amy was equally obsessed
 She was too embarrassed to tell him that she was born deaf
 Avoided him at school, but to make her love known
 She would leave him little signs through the lines of her poems
 So she sent one to his home, after seven days passed
 Cause it seemed like Billy wasn't showin' up to class
 So she's going home confused, trapped in the worst mood
 Flippin' on the TV to a tragic story on the news
 It was a picture of your average teen, all it said was this:
 "LOCAL TEEN SUICIDAL WITH A KNIFE TO HIS WRIST"
 At the scene where he died was a letter never read
 From a girl named Amy and it said
 I wanna show you that I care
 But I don't have the nerve
 I wanna say I love you
 But I can't find the words
 I wish that you could know how I
 Really felt all of this time
 But no matter what I do
 You can't see the signs