I learned to swallow words like pills Keep the tremor out my voice Built a house of perfect stillness Called it strength, called it choice But your hands found every fracture Every place I came undone And I watched you hold the pieces Like you'd never let me run Don't make promises your body can't keep Don't say forever if you're leaving in sleep So be careful with the breaking When you shatter something this way There's no careful reassembly No returning to the day I was whole before you loved me Now I'm scattered on the floor And you're walking out the door So be careful with the breaking 'Cause I won't survive it twice anymore You said I was too much Too loud, too dark, too real Said I needed to be softer Learn not to feel But you're the one who cracked me open Made me bleed into the light Now you're terrified of what you're seeing Now you're running from the sight Don't touch me like you love me If you're already saying goodbye So be careful with the breaking When you shatter something this way There's no careful reassembly No returning to the day I was whole before you loved me Now I'm scattered on the floor And you're walking out the door So be careful with the breaking 'Cause I won't survive it twice anymore I could have stayed broken Would've been easier that way Never let you close enough To see the rot and the decay But you asked and I answered Gave you all of what was left And now silence is a weapon And your absence is my death I'm not angry anymore I'm just tired I'm just tired I'm just tired So be careful with the breaking When you're breaking someone like me I won't beg you to stay here Won't bargain to be free I was brave enough to love you That should count for something still But you were only ever clever And I'm the one who bleeds until I learn to call it living Learn to call this life You were beautiful and wicked Like a knife So be careful with the breaking Careful with the breaking Careful...
