I'm letting my family down
Why is eating dinner so hard?
Why does everything have to be a cycle?
Nobody gets it
I'm expected of so much
Good grades
Basketball champion
I'm so alone
So misunderstood
If something could just change
God help me
He used the back of his shaking hand to wipe the tears from his eyes before they fell. He got a new piece of paper and his usual pencil. His thoughts flooded onto the white paper, making it black.
"This is all that I can be,
All that I can be.
Head tilted down,
Knees on the ground,
And I will ask,
Please save me."
The tears were hopelessly flowing down his cheeks, speckling the paper in the process.
He sat in front of the piano and leaned against it. His hands tightly intertwined with each other. He began to pray. His voice was cracky and miserable.
"Save me,"
He choked on his tears.
"Save me! Please! I can't do this alone! Help me!"
He stood up and hunched over the piano, not caring about the tears and boogers running down his red face. He spent the next hour working on a background beat. He combined a drumline off his laptop with a recording of a piano riff similar to that of earlier. He turned on the mic and grabbed the soggy piece of paper. Reading over the words "save me" made him lose it all over again. He began to try recording himself and putting everything together. His singing was raw. It was real. Beautiful in its own Tyler Joseph sort of way. His emotions clearly possessing his voice. But when he got to those two words, he could do nothing but scream them.
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Entertain My Faith
FanfictionIn Columbus Ohio, teenager Tyler Joseph's world is crashing down on him from the pressure of school, family, and social life. Just as he's almost had enough, his church hires a drummer named Josh Dun to play during services who turns everything arou...
