Billy was a young boy throwing bricks Running through town with his finger flipped Crying inside for the love he missed Kissing your face with his pale fist He could fly He could fly Lucy was a swimmer in her old school team Cut through the water like a fish in a stream But when she got home and heard her mother scream She put her fingers in her ears and began to dream She could fly She could fly Closer, what do you say It was all too much to bear Closer, we're not the same It was not your pain to share And I will never be a hero But I can look you in the eye And try And try And try Emma was a shadow at the back of the cla** Never saw her move, never heard her ask Hiding from the words that had cut like gla** Hiding from your friends and the way you laughed She could fly She could fly Closer, what do you say It was all too much to bear Closer, we're not the same It was not your pain to share And I will never be a hero But I can look you in the eye And try And try And try And one day they will need you But you won't need them then And one day they will love you But they are not your friends They don't know you like that Closer, what do you say It was all too much to bear Closer, we're not the same It was not your pain to share And I will never be a hero But I can look you in the eye And try And try And try