These Walls – Brittany Karboski

What they don’t say hurts
Just as much as what they do
I wrote down your name thinkin
I’d have something to come back to
An open heart, was all I had
No matter how I’ve been drained
My heart keeps pumping
Sometimes I wish it’d stop

And they’ll never know
How it feels to me
You’ll never see all my tears
The smallest things can tear me apart
I keep it locked inside
You say I don’t have to hide
But if I let it out
And tear my walls down
What keeps me from the cold

To you I’m just someone in passing 8bars
But to me everything you say Matters
And I don’t know how to block it out
I don’t know how to shut it down
There’s tears on my keyboard
But I’m still writing

And they’ll never know
How it feels to me
You’ll never see all my tears
The smallest things can tear me apart
I keep it locked inside
You say I don’t have to hide
But if I let it out and tear my walls down
What keeps me from the cold

What keeps me from falling every time
What keeps me from dying
When you said just move on
Like I meant nothing
The shoe you threw in the corner
These walls