DON'T WAKE THE GIRLS You're really gonna do this right now? Okay. Just... Keep your voice down. Twelve forty-seven, bare feet on the tile You say we need to talk, haven't looked at me in a while There's a glass beside the sink neither one of us will drink And a thousand little accusations hanging off the things we think You say I'm never here, even when I'm in the room I tell you I've been running empty, you say, "Baby, me too" Now we're counting who did more, who's been giving up the most Like there's something left to win when we're both this close to broke You say I never listen, I say you never ask You bring up last December, I bring up something past Then I see you turn away before the tears begin And I hate that I still need the final word to win Three soft lights beyond the door Little shadows on the floor I can hear you swallow words We both know would make it worse Don't wake the girls, don't wake the girls Keep the thunder in this room Three gold lights down the hallway They don't need to hear us lose Don't wake the girls, don't wake the girls Say it low, but say it true We learned to make a whisper hurt Like shouting never used to do Shh, don't wake the girls Don't wake the girls Your coffee cup's beside mine, your keys are by the door Five crooked faces smiling from the fridge like before You say we only talk when something's already gone wrong I say I try to fix it, you say that's not what you want You want me just to hear you without building my defense I want you to remember I'm still trying to make sense Of how we got so far from who we swore we'd always be While three little lives keep growing in the space between I know I can get cruel when I feel like I'm not heard I know you go ice cold and make a weapon out of words We're not innocent, either one, and that's the hardest part We keep aiming at the person who knows every place we're scarred There's a floorboard down the hall We both stop talking when it calls For one second, neither fights We just listen through the night Don't wake the girls, don't wake the girls Keep the thunder in this room Three gold lights down the hallway They don't need to hear us lose Don't wake the girls, don't wake the girls Say it low, but say it true We learned to make a whisper hurt Like shouting never used to do Shh, don't wake the girls Don't wake the girls "Daddy... water?" I find her cup, you fix the covers We move together without a sound For thirty seconds we're on the same side Like we remember how somehow She closes her eyes, we close the door Those golden nightlights stay the same We walk back toward the kitchen And lose each other all over again Don't wake the girls, don't wake the girls Keep the thunder in this room Three gold lights down the hallway They don't need to hear us lose Don't wake the girls, don't wake the girls Say it low, but say it true We learned to make a whisper hurt Like shouting never used to do You say, "We can't keep doing this." I know.
