Released: November 18, 2013
Songwriter: Martin Johnson Christina Perri
Producer: Martin Johnson
[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
I can do it
I can do it
I can do it
[Chorus]
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, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
[Verse 2]
I can turn it on
Be a good machine
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I can do it
I can do it
I'll get through it
[Chorus]
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, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
[Bridge]
I'm only human
I'm only human
Just a little human
[Interlude]
I can take so much
'Til I've had enough
[Chorus]
'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, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
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
[Pre-Chorus]
I can do it
I can do it
I can do it
[Chorus]
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, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
[Verse 2]
I can turn it on
Be a good machine
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything
[Pre-Chorus]
I can do it
I can do it
I'll get through it
[Chorus]
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, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
[Bridge]
I'm only human
I'm only human
Just a little human
[Interlude]
I can take so much
'Til I've had enough
[Chorus]
'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, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
- Miami 2014 (2014)
- head or heart (2014)
- A Thousand Years
- human
- Jar of Hearts
- arms
- A Thousand Years, Pt. 2
- distance
- tonight you belong to me
- the lonely
- the words
- you are my sunshine
- i believe
- sea of lovers
- be my forever
- burning gold
- bluebird
- you mean the whole wide world to me
- tiny victories
- Ave Maria
- Black + Blue (live at Ocean Way Studios)
- my eyes
- Daydream (live at Ocean Way Studios)
- Tragedy (live at Ocean Way Studios)
- backwards
- Jar Of Hearts (Live)