[Verse 1] He’s got sidewalk chalk on both his hands A superhero cape and a plastic sword He asks me if the moon gets scared When the night gets dark outside our door And I laugh like I know the answer But it catches somewhere in my chest ’Cause I was once that small and certain Before the world got in my head [Pre-Chorus] And I don’t know how you looked at me With my tiny shoes and my big blue dreams And still became the storm [Chorus] How could you break a heart When it was only learning how to beat? How could you raise your voice At someone barely taller than your knees? I watch him run through the fading light And I swear I’ll never understand How you saw me when I was his age And still became the hands I had to heal from [Verse 2] He brings me rocks like they’re diamonds Says the clouds look like a train I say, “Buddy, that’s amazing” And I mean it every time he says my name Then I wonder if I did that too If I ran to you with stars in jars If you ever saw the magic Before you taught me where the bruises are [Pre-Chorus] ’Cause he trusts me with his whole wide world Like I must have trusted you And that’s the part that hurts the most ’Cause now I know you knew [Chorus] How could you break a heart When it was only learning how to beat? How could you raise your voice At someone barely taller than your knees? I watch him run through the fading light And I swear I’ll never understand How you saw me when I was his age And still became the hands I had to heal from [Bridge] Maybe you were broken Maybe no one taught you grace Maybe pain was all you carried And you handed me the weight But I’m holding something smaller And he’s laughing in the yard So I’m ending what you started Before it ever reaches his heart [Final Chorus] I won’t break a heart When it is only learning how to beat I won’t make my anger bigger Than the child in front of me
