Hmm
Hmm-mm
I used to polish every silence
Sweep my sadness off the floor
Fold my fear into tiny bits
Hide it in a bedroom drawer
But all that careful
Quiet living
Left my colors turning pale
Like drinking water from a thimble
Never daring to inhale
So I sit with the sting
Let it burn in my chest
Leave the door open
To the ache and the mess
I won't run from the shiver
Or the shake in my voice
If my heart's gonna break
Let it break from a choice
I don't want the safe life
If it costs me my light
I'd rather bruise in the daylight
Than sleepwalk through the night
The truth is, comfort grows like ivy
Wraps around the brightest parts
So quietly you stop trying to grow
While it tightens on your heart
But there is beauty in the blushing
In the laugh that comes out wrong
In the tear that finds your cheekbone
Right in the middle of a song
So I sit with the sting
Let it burn in my chest
Leave the door open
To the ache and the mess
I won't run from the shiver
Or the shake in my voice
If my heart's gonna break
Let it break from a choice
I don't want the safe life
If it costs me my light
I'd rather bruise in the daylight
Than sleepwalk through the night