[Verse 1] You wear a smile with a loose thread And tug it into place You pass the salt, refill the glasses With a siren in your chest You ask how everyone is doing Then nod before they answer twice While evening stains the kitchen window And blue light gathers in your eyes [Pre-Chorus] You don’t have to unfold every wound Or translate what the quiet means Some pain has learned to live in muscle But I can hear it underneath [Chorus] I see you When their eyes slide past your shoulder I see the weather under your skin The tears drying before they fall You don’t have to be the load-bearing wall Or keep every ceiling from caving in If no one has told you lately Your life is more than what you carry I see you Yeah, I see you [Verse 2] You’ve been the handrail on the staircase The porch light through the rain You gather every broken saucer And hide the blood along your hand Who finds you when the house goes hollow? When midnight presses to the pane? Who sits beside the locked-up rooms When old voices learn your name? They see you walking into morning Not the grit beneath your nails Not the miles you crossed on shaking legs Or how you taught your lungs to stay [Pre-Chorus] You don’t owe the world a spotless face To keep its furniture from shaking Let the dishes cool beside the sink Let the unanswered phone keep ringing [Chorus] I see you When their eyes slide past your shoulder I see the weather under your skin The tears drying before they fall You don’t have to be the load-bearing wall Or keep every ceiling from caving in If no one has told you lately Your life is more than what you carry I see you Yeah, I see you [Bridge] I don’t know every room you left Or which doors still stick at night Which names are written under paint You pass beneath in borrowed light But I know the way a body Leans before the hard wind hits And even hands that lift the world Need a place to open up You’re not invisible [Final Chorus] I see you In the rooms you never enter In the pulse behind the locked door Still knocking through the swollen wood I see each quiet act of courage No one gathers round to praise The kettle trembling before sunrise Your bare feet meeting the floor again So if these words find you tonight Like a match cupped from the rain They’re yours, they’re yours You have not walked one mile unseen There is a witness to your pain I see you Yeah, I see you
