[Verse 1]
Kitchen light humming at midnight
Phone face down by the sink
All the words you sent
I reread them
Till the screen starts to sting
In my head there’s a crowd with a checklist
Every rule
Every line
Every test
You’re laughing through the speaker like it’s simple
I’m nodding
But I’m such a mess
[Chorus]
It’s too loud to hear my heart
Every should
Every shouldn’t
Every scar
All these voices telling me who I am
Where I fit
Who I get to hold
I could almost fall for you
If the world in my head wasn’t shouting through
I’m trying so hard to tune in to what I feel
But it’s too loud
Too loud to hear my heart
[Verse 2]
Your jacket’s still hanging on my chair
Smells like rain and a ride back home
We never touched
But my hands remember
How close
How close we were gonna go
Then a face in the mirror starts talking
“Don’t you dare
Think of them
Think it through”
I rehearse breaking this before it’s broken
You say my name
I look straight through you
[Chorus]
It’s too loud to hear my heart
Every should
Every shouldn’t
Every scar
All these voices telling me who I am
Where I fit
Who I get to hold
I could almost fall for you
If the world in my head wasn’t shouting through
I’m trying so hard to tune in to what I feel
But it’s too loud
Too loud to hear my heart
[Bridge]
If I close my eyes
Just breathe
Just breathe
Can I hear that quiet answer
Under everything they need from me
If I took one step
Past the lines they drew
Would the floor give way beneath me
Or would I fall into you (into you)
[Chorus]
It’s too loud to hear my heart
Every rule running circles in the dark
All these voices telling me who I am
Where I fit
Who I get to hold
I could almost fall for you
God
I wish I didn’t care what they’d say or do
I’m reaching through the noise to find something real
But it’s too loud
Too loud to hear my heart