[Intro | Male | Dry Spoken | No Music] I've always found it easier To tell someone the truth... Than to tell them when I'm hurting. [Verse 1 | Male | Bass and Drums Enter] I lay the truth out on the table Like it's something I can give Never thought that being honest Could be such a complicated gift I don't need you to agree with me Don't need every door thrown wide But I show you what's inside my head And wonder what you keep inside [Female | Soft Ad-lib] (We don't all give the same way...) [Pre-Chorus | Male | Building] And I know that silence isn't lying I know we're different, you and me But knowing doesn't stop the feeling When I give what I don't receive [Chorus | Male | Strong, Melodic] I give you the truth But I bury my own Make room for everybody Then carry mine alone I can take what life throws I can bend and not break But I keep giving pieces That I never let you take [Female | Smoky, Quiet] (And who's there for you?) [Male] That's what I don't say [Verse 2 | Male | Rhythmic, More Defiant] I call my thinking simple Before somebody calls it wrong Second-guess the words I'm speaking Before they've even come along I say sorry for a feeling Before I've felt it all the way Like I need somebody's permission To believe the things I say [Female | Quiet, Challenging] (Who told you you were wrong?) [Pre-Chorus | Male | Rising] I've spent a lifetime reading faces Trying not to cross a line But somewhere in the careful silence I started questioning mine [Chorus | Male | Strong, Melodic] I give you the truth But I bury my own Make room for everybody Then carry mine alone I can take what life throws I can bend and not break But I keep giving pieces That I never let you take [Female | Soft] (And who's there for you?) [Male] That's what I don't say [Verse 3 | Male | Stripped Back, Intimate] There's a shake I try to live with There's an ache I put aside Another date upon the calendar Another thing I keep inside I tell the world when it's been handled When the answers have been found I never make a sound while falling Only once I'm back on solid ground [Female | Barely Above a Whisper] (Why didn't you tell me?) [Bridge | Male | Spoken | Nearly Silent] I made the calls I booked the scans I heard the news I made the plans [Female | Intimate, Spoken] And who did you tell? [Male | Sung | Slowly Building] Nobody until it was over Nobody until I knew How to make it sound like nothing So it wouldn't trouble you [Female | Soft] (But it troubled you...) [Male | Almost Whispered] Yeah. It troubled me. [Instrumental | Four Bars | Drums Build, Guitar Swells] [Final Chorus | Male | Full Band, Emotional Lift] I give you the truth But I bury my own Make room for everybody Then carry mine alone I can take what life throws I can bend and not break But there's a difference between strong And never letting someone stay [Female | Harmony] (You don't have to hide it all...) [Male | Powerful, Then Softening] There's a thousand things I'm feeling That I never learned to say [Female | Soft Echo] (Never learned to say...) [Male] That's what I don't say [Outro | Male | Quiet, Almost Spoken] I never meant to hide it. I just never learned to say it. [Female | Barely Audible] (I'm listening.)
