My body speaks in places Where my words don't know the way A tightening in my chest A tremble I can't name I don't always know I'm hurting Until something gives me away A breath I can't quite finish A feeling I can't explain I tell myself I'm alright I tell myself I'm safe But my hands don't believe me And my chest gives me away I say I'm fine I say I'm safe But something in me knows that's not the case It moves beneath The skin I wear A silent warning waiting there My body knows Before I do It feels the things I can't put into words My body knows What words can't hold It keeps the stories I can't unfold It knows before my mind It sees the danger I can't find And when I don't know What I'm going through Something in me Knows what's true Sometimes I feel nothing Until it settles in my bones A heaviness behind my eyes That follows me back home I thought that I was over it I wanted to believe I was But then my hands begin to shake And suddenly I'm back there I search my head For something clear But all I find is tension here A thousand feelings Without a name Something speaks I can't explain My body knows Before I do It feels the things I can't put into words My body knows What words can't hold It keeps the stories I can't unfold It knows before my mind It sees the danger I can't find And when I don't know What I'm going through Something in me Knows what's true Maybe I don't have to know Why every silence makes me freeze Maybe I can listen now Instead of fighting what I feel Not every feeling needs a word Not every wound needs to be seen Maybe I can stay here With the parts of me I used to leave My chest My hands My skin My bones Something speaks Without a sound My chest My hands My skin My bones I don't know yet But somehow... My body knows Before I do It feels the things I can't put into words My body knows What words can't hold It keeps the stories I can't unfold And maybe now I'll stop pretending That I don't feel What I've been hiding I'll listen when The silence moves And let myself Tell the truth I don't have the words yet But I'm learning to listen I don't have the answers But something knows Before I do My body knows... Before I do
