Human – Christina Perri – Percy Jackson

I can hold my breath I can bite my tongue I can stay awake for days If that's what you want Be your number one

I can fake a smile I can force a laugh I can dance and play the part If that's what you ask Give you all I am

I can do it all I can do it all I can do it all

But I'm only human And I bleed when I fall down I'm only human And I crash and I break down Your words in my head and knives in my heart You build me up and then I fall down Cause I'm only human

I can turn it on Be a good machine I can hold the weight of the worlds If that's what you need Be your everything

I can do it I can do it I'll get through it

But I'm only human And I bleed when I fall down I'm only human And I crash and I break down Your words in my head and knives in my heart You build me up and then I fall apart Cause I'm only human

I'm only human I'm only human Just a little human

I can take so much Till I've had so much

Cause I'm only human And I bleed when I fall down I'm only human And I crash and I break down Your words in my head and knives in my heart You build me up and then I fall apart Cause I'm only human

'Son, what are you doing here?' The words rolled and tumbled to the young boy. His sweet and innocent child, his pride and his joy, the one he was never there for which his shitty excuses try to cover up but how many times he says it, it will never excuse his absence. 'Looking over my beautiful city.' The serenity of the words washing over his father. He knows his son wants to be alone to think to catch up with his whizzing thoughts of the past, present and future, to just sit and relax in a moment of silence which is rare especially to him. To be alone to allow himself to smile against the world and scream and shout, 'I'm alive and I may be in pain but I'm alive.' So he's allowing the moment to carry on but with two in the frame sitting on the empire state legs swinging in the sky with the clouds rolling around their feet.

The world stopped for them even if it was for a second or an hour but their moment is passing before the tensions of the world pile upon their shoulders dragging them down once more. They know the moment may not come around again for years or decades even.

It takes 6 words to carry to hide the want, need the wishes of everything and anything, 'I love you my son. Before the moment passed and them both jumping into reality once again. The moment never being forgotten but always out of their reach.