The Boy with Depression (Original Short) by Fathin AMJ

Written in 2013/14 & Recorded in 2016.

A song inspired by a friend who shared their experience going through depression. Trigger warning.

The song is not about this friend at all. It's about two siblings: an older brother and a younger little sister who were survivors of a dysfunctional family and lived only with their abusive mother. The sister hoped that her brother would not fall to the depths of his depression because he's the only tangible hope they both had to escape their situation at the time. This song is her declaration of hope. Since she was still young, the focus was on "me" when in fact, what she really meant was "us".

Lyrics:
The curtains are drawn
And your eyes are shone
with the light of the dawn
as if you have grown up alone

When those feelings emerge
from the deepest grief
What would you do to urge
me and to make me believe

That your faith
and not your death
would take me out of this place

That your faith
and not your wrath
would take me out of this mess