Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri & Ed Sheeran
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Christina Perri
Perri is saying in this song that she is willing to anything for the person she loves, but she isn’t perfect and her relationship with this person is breaking her down.
[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
Human was written by Christina Perri & Martin Johnson.
Human was produced by Martin Johnson.
Christina Perri released Human on Mon Nov 18 2013.
I remember writing a song at 6 p.m. on a Wednesday, and then having to do it again the next day at 6 p.m. It was difficult, and I had hit a wall. So instead of not writing songs, I wrote a song about feeling like I couldn’t write one. Of course, people think it’s about a guy.
– Via Billboard (2014)