WHEN I COME UNDONE Zephyr Wolf [INTRO — VERY SOFT / HALF-SPOKEN] I don’t need you to fix me… I just… I don’t wanna be strong tonight. Just don’t leave when I come undone. [VERSE 1 — QUIET / CLOSE-MIC] I’ve gotten good at hiding what I can’t explain, Laughing with a heavy chest, smiling through the pain. Everybody knows the man I let walk outside… Nobody sees what happens when I get home at night. [PRE-CHORUS — SOFT / FRAGILE] I’m tired of being strong just because I know how. If you really wanna love me… love me like this now. [CHORUS — SOFT-SUNG / NO BELTING] When I come undone… when the strong man breaks, When my hands won’t stop shaking and I can’t find my faith… Don’t tell me I’m okay. Just hold me where I am. I’ve been everybody’s shelter… Who holds me when I can’t? [VERSE 2 — NEAR-WHISPER] There’s a boy inside this body still asking what he did. Some wounds get older… They don’t forget where they live. So I became the man everybody needed me to be. But some nights… that scared little boy still sounds like me. [BREAK — HALF-SPOKEN / VOICE TREMBLING] And I hate that… God… I hate that. I did everything I was supposed to do. I survived it. So why… why does surviving still hurt this bad? [BREAKDOWN — WHISPERED / EMOTIONALLY CRACKING] Who holds the man that holds everyone else? Who hears “I’m fine”… and knows it means… help. I don’t need saving. I just need somebody who won’t leave… when I come undone. [FINAL CHORUS — EXHAUSTED / BARELY SINGING] So let me come undone… Let my hands shake. Let me hurt without telling me I’m okay. I’ve held everybody up for so damn long… Maybe tonight… you could hold me. [OUTRO — ALMOST A WHISPER] I don’t need you to fix me… Just… don’t leave.
