One AM and the screen is dark again
Pacing back and forth and back and forth and then...
I check the time, I check my pulse, I check the lock upon the door
This silence feels familiar, I've been here before.
You said you wouldn't do this, I don't remember when
The promises start blurring, now and then
And I start to build a case up, then I tear it all apart
'Am I crazy?' asks the brain, 'You're wounded,' says the heart.
My mind is playing movies that I don't want to see
Full of smoky rooms and laughter that isn't aimed at me
Is it just me? Am I losing my mind?
Or are you just the latest lesson of the cruelest kind?
And where the hell have you been?! No, don't you look surprised!
Don't you feed me all your tired and well-rehearsed lies!
It's not about the party, it's the promises you break!
It's the choice for just one second that you couldn't seem to make!
It's about respect! A single goddamn text!
'I'm safe, I'm okay,' is that so complex?!
I'm not your ****ing jailer, I don't need to hold the key!
I just needed you to show some basic love for me!
We were painting colors, we were building something true!
So tell me how the hell does this fit in with me and you?!
Our foundation of trust! Is it gone for good?!
Tell me, did you ever really think I misunderstood?!
Look me in the eye and tell me that you stood for what you should!
And the anger fades... and leaves a hollow space...
Can't even recognize the expression on your face...
You're standing by the doorway and I'm frozen in my chair
Just the echo of the shouting, hanging in the air.
All our pretty colors have faded back to gray...
There's nothing left to say...
Nothing left to break...
Just the wreckage of the words we wish we didn't say.
There's just a question hanging here above our dying bed
How do you fix a thing... that's broken in the head?
How do you fix a thing... that wasn't built of stone?
How do you fix a thing... that's broken in the bone?
Yeah, how do you fix a thing...
...when the break is on the inside?
