Fragile

[Intro – Whispered female vocal, fingerpicked acoustic] I turned your touch into a battlefield Never meant to break your heart Built my home inside my silence While you searched for where I was You kept reaching through the darkness With both hands wrapped around my soul I kept hiding behind the shadows Too afraid to let you know [Verse 1] Every time you looked at me Like I was still worth holding onto I'd look away before your eyes Could see the parts I hated too I wore my fear beneath my skin Like chains I'd learned to call my own And every wall I built around me Left you standing there alone You learned to whisper around me So I wouldn't fall apart While I kept mistaking brokenness For something that could guard my heart Now every room still holds your echo Every silence speaks your name Funny how I never heard it Until everything had changed [Pre-Chorus] You loved me when I couldn't breathe When I was drowning in myself You carried pieces of my soul While yours sat quietly on the shelf And God... it tears me wide apart Knowing every time you stayed You were bleeding just as badly You just hid it better than I did [Chorus] Tell me there's still light behind your eyes Tell me I haven't missed my chance Lately every smile between us Feels like one last dying dance I know I'm standing in the ruins Of the home we used to build Trying to hold what's left together With two shaking, empty hands still I know "I'm sorry" can't erase it Or give your heart back what I stole But if there's even one small heartbeat Please don't let us become ghosts [Verse 2] Addiction whispered lies so softly That I believed them over you Promised isolation was protection While it slowly split us in two You kept asking where I'd gone While I was sitting right beside you Smiling just enough to fool the world Never realizing I'd lost you Silence has a way of growing Like winter climbing through the walls Until two people sharing one bed Feel miles apart after all You questioned if you were enough Because I couldn't love myself And that's the wound I'll carry longest Knowing I made you doubt yourself I thought surviving was the victory Just making it another day Never stopped to see survival Was pushing you away [Pre-Chorus 2] I'm done mistaking guilt for healing Or tears for honest change Love isn't words spoken in panic It's who I choose to be each day If you ever let me hold you again I swear you'll never stand alone I'll become the kind of shelter You once tried so hard to call home [Bridge – Nearly spoken] What if this is who I should've been... After you've already stopped waiting? What if I finally learn to love you... When your heart no longer remembers how to love me back? That's the nightmare I deserve. Not losing you... Living long enough... To understand... Why. [Final Chorus] Tell me it's not too late to save us Tell me there's still something left I know forgiveness isn't easy After all the tears you've wept Beneath the wreckage and the ashes Under every scar we made You're still the only place my future Ever truly knew your name If hope is buried in the silence I'll dig until my hands give out I'd rather spend forever earning you Than live forever full of doubt Even if your trust returns in pieces Even if it takes a lifetime through I'd spend every heartbeat proving That I finally learned... How to love... You. [Outro – Bare acoustic guitar] I still catch myself imagining Your hand reaching for mine... Before either of us knew How fragile forever was. I'm sorry for every lonely night You cried beside someone Who should've been holding you. If love ever finds its way Back to us... I promise... You'll never have to carry me Alone...