You said I’m hard to read
Like walls along a dead-end street
You trace the cracks
Still come back
Yeah
I grew up
Pouring fear in wet cement
Every promise
Left another print
Built my habits
Into columns that don’t bend
Talk in silence
Call it “this is how I am”
I got a concrete heart
Careful where you step
It scars
Every word you say
Hits like a hammer anyway
If I let you in too far
Can you live with all these marks?
I don’t know how to fall apart
So I stand here with a concrete heart
You bring flowers
Leave them right outside my chest
They keep dying
From the weight I never lift
You keep telling me
“I don’t need perfect
I need real”
I keep answering
With things I never let myself feel
I got a concrete heart
Careful where you step
It scars
Every word you say
Hits like a hammer anyway
If I let you in too far
Can you live with all these marks?
I don’t know how to fall apart
So I stand here with a concrete heart
What if I crack?
What if you leave?
What if the dust of me
Ends up on your sleeves?
What if you stay?
What if it’s fine?
What if these rigid lines
Finally realign?
I got a concrete heart
Careful where you step
It scars
Every word you say
Shakes all the pillars in the dark
If I let you in this far
Promise you won’t hate the parts
Where I don’t know how to start
Learning how to love
With a concrete heart