For every LGBTQ kid I saw get picked on, bullied, assaulted or otherwise hurt growing up in the shithole, redneck town I grew up in. I'm sorry for not speaking up. This song will never be enough.
*Update 2018* This song is nowhere near enough and is problematic making the ally the center of the song instead of the marginalized person. We're trying to better.
lyrics
This is an open letter, to those who thought it better
to move on to a place their words can't touch you.
Razor, rope, fistful of pills--they never saw and never will
all the beauty and love you held inside.
so I'm sorry, I'm so sorry--I should have said something when we were kids.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry--apologize for things I never did.
I should have been there for you,
closet doors should have never been an option.
Told you to love who you would love
never know shame, but now you're gone.
and I'm sorry.
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