Concealed

Verse 1

How can I trust you, when I’m your disguise?

A shadow you lust for under moonlit skies.

You feel so different, it almost feels real—

but step back, it’s clear, I’m something to conceal.

Pre-Chorus

My heart aches to be held, to be healed,

with you it feels close, almost real.

Verse 2

My hive of a mind is too heavy to hold.

I wish I could let go, let the pain unfold.

Exhale what’s buried, release what I hide,

let you catch me as my walls subside.

Show you the earth that’s rotting beneath

the thin wallpaper of my grief.

Pre-Chorus 2

Would you be afraid, would you run away?

I scare myself if I look that way.

That’s why I cover, why I move slow—

I don’t know your darkness, don’t know your soul.

Chorus

In my dreams you’d love me so,

I’d be your princess in this hole.

But I don’t know what’s inside of you—

do you want me the way I want you?

Bridge

Or am I just thirsting for a little love,

in a life deprived of a single true hug?

I don’t know love, don’t know what it means—

I can’t even love myself in-between.

How can I be more than a body to prod,

a niche little cattle among the cog?

Final Chorus

If you love me, tell me so.

Or tell me kindly to let you go.

I’m afraid I’ll hurt you, or worse—myself,

I can’t keep breathing in this hell.

Outro

Not alone at least—

but I’m not sure I can free the beast

I hold inside, the one I dream to expel.

Would you hate me then,

the way I hate myself?