Break in the ceiling

Описание: [Intro]
[Close-mic]
Yeah
Listen

[Verse 1]
Clock on the wall reads
"Too late" in red
I’m still replaying
Everything I said
Mom on the phone like
"Son
You okay?"
I lie so clean
You could eat off the plate

Cold air
In a warm car
Engine on
GPS screaming
"Turn back
You’re gone"
Hands on the wheel
Knuckles like chalk
My past in the rearview
Mouth can’t talk

I was taught "hold it in"
Till veins feel rope
Smile in the storm
While the ribs still smoke
So I stack my shame
In a neat little pile
Like
"If I don’t look down
I’ll be fine for a while"

[Chorus]
This is the break in the ceiling
Where the plaster starts to fall
Every secret that I buried
Crawling out from in the walls
If I finally say I’m broken
Will you see me as a threat?
I’m a man made out of silence
And I’m running out of breath

[Verse 2]
[low vocal register]
They love the highlight reel
Never watched the bloopers
Judge me by the armor
Never checked the sutures
You see the straight back
You don’t see the limp
You quote my strong talk
You skip the squint

I wake up in a war
Nobody else hears
Alarm in my chest
Counting down years
Therapist asking
"Where do we start?"
I point at my throat
Say
"This is the part"

[builds pace]
I bite down on anger
Till molars crack
Turn hurt into hustle
Then never relax
I’ve bled for a family
That don’t pick up
But still set the table
Still pour their cups

[slower
Heavy]
I’m scared that my daughters
Gonna copy my stance
Think real men only talk
When they talk with their hands
If I don’t change now
Then they get this cage
So I’m tearing at the bars
Till my fingers fray

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[whispered vocals]
What if I fall
And nobody stays?
What if I talk
And you back away?
[louder]
What if I crack
Right here
Right now?
What if that’s the first time
I stand my ground?

[Chorus]