Verse 1 I can’t dig deep enough to find the words For the weight this silence holds It outlived the waiting It outlived the hope Now it sits where love once was Cold and wordless at the door And somehow all this silence Hurts more than goodbye ever could Chorus How many tears does it take To make a waterfall? However many there are I swear I’ve cried them all Still the grief has not run dry Still the river finds my eyes How can a heart hold this much And somehow stay alive? Verse 2 How do you gather the pieces When everything comes undone? When bending down to save them Feels like another way to bleed? Some belonged to who I was Some are too broken to keep So I’m learning not every shattered thing Was ever meant to leave with me Chorus How many tears does it take To make a waterfall? However many there are I swear I’ve cried them all Still the grief has not run dry Still the river finds my eyes How can a heart hold this much And somehow stay alive? Bridge I couldn’t bury the grief So I invited it inside Gave it a chair, gave it a room A place beside me at night Somewhere along the way It stopped feeling like a guest It learned every empty hallway Every hollow in my chest Final Chorus How many tears does it take To make a waterfall? I don’t know the number I only know I’ve cried them all And still the grief has not run dry But neither, somehow, have I I’m standing in the wreckage And I’m standing here alive Let the tears become the river Let the river find the sea Let the pieces I can’t carry Become something I can leave Outro I couldn’t reach the bottom Of the silence But somewhere beneath the waterfall I found enough ground To stand.
