Cement Walls, Glass Hearts | By: Ay! Eye Muse

Описание: LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
Laughter down the hallway
Mugs clink
Someone sings my name
But I hear it through the concrete
Like thunder from a different rain
Their stories scrape the ceiling
I trace the cracks above my bed
Every cheer a little earthquake
Dust in my lungs instead

[Chorus]
I’m the outsider
Looking in
At glass hearts glowing on their skin
But I’m sealed tight in these cement walls
Counting echoes as they fall
They pass the pictures
Frame by frame
I press my palms against my chest
I’m the outsider
Saying my own god-damn name,
Where no one answers back (no one answers back)

[Verse 2]
I see them in my memory
Kitchen light on midnight hair
Shared socks
Stolen blankets
Inside jokes in kitchen chairs
Out here the air is heavy
A locked-in shut-out
Colorless hush
I talk to my own shadow
but it never says much

[Chorus]
I’m the outsider
Looking in
At glass hearts glowing on their skin
But I’m sealed tight in these cement walls
Counting echoes as they fall
They pass the pictures
Frame by frame
I press my palms against my chest
I’m the outsider
Saying my own fucking name
Where no one answers back (yeah, no one answers back)

[Bridge]
If this room had just one fracture
A chipped edge
A failing seam
Would the world come rushing toward me
Or would I just leak a dream?
I knock once for every year lost
I breathe once for every “why”
In a building built around me
So, I can learn how to cry

[Chorus]
I’m the outsider
Looking in
At glass hearts glowing on their skin
They’re clinking glasses
Calling home
I answer from this buried stone
They live in color
Frame by frame
I fade to gray and then to black
I’m the outsider
Saying my name
Till these cement walls
Start saying it back (saying it back),