There's a thread that's wound around us older than the words we say
You hold one end in your clenched hands I'm holding mine the other way
We're both off pulling both are tired both afraid to let it fray
But I'd rather learn to knot it than to watch it slip away
So I'm not asking you for answers I'm not asking you for proof
Just to sit here in the silence till we both unlearn the truth
That love is something earned in battles won by whoever bends the least
Teach me how to mend
Not to hide the break but to hold it in my hands
Teach me how to bend
Like the willow in the wind not the oak that can't withstand
If I'm made of all your storms and all your quiet steady light
Then show me which to carry and which to lay down for the night
Oh, teach me how to mend
I have your stubborn in my shoulders I have your fire in my veins
And I've wondered if I'm doomed to wear the shape of all your pain
But I saw you in the doorway soft against the evening glow
And I knew there's more inside us than the stories that we know
So I'm not asking you to change it I'm not asking for a crown
Just to meet me in the middle where the old balls tumble down
And fear is only fear not fate not a sentence handed down
Oh, teach me how to mend
Not to hide the break but to hold it in my hands
Teach me how to bend
Like the willow in the wind not the oak that can't withstand
If I'm made of all your storms and all your quiet steady light
Then show me which to carry and which to lay down for the night
Oh, teach me how to mend
Maybe courage isn't roaring maybe it's the whispered stay
Maybe it's the open hand after all the years of no way
And if we're broken we're still holding the places where we meet
Every scar a stitch of gold making the damage thin complete
So teach me how to mend
Not to hide the break but to hold it in my hands
Teach me how to bend
For the love that's strong enough to understand
We are made of all our storms and all our quiet steady light
And we'll choose together now which to carry through the night
Oh teach me how to mend
Teach me how to mend
Teach me how to mend
Teach me how to mend
