Cardboard box

CARDBOARD BOX

Come sit in my cardboard box for a minute

It ain’t much

But everything I lost is still somewhere in it

Life is simple

People make it hard

We turn little cracks

Into permanent scars

I spent thirty-three years

Lookin’ over my shoulder

Thought getting older

Would make me feel older

But I’m still that kid

Tryna figure shit out

Building walls out of fear

Then calling it a house

I rewind every night

Like the ending might change

But the past don’t give a damn

How many times you press play

And I know now

What I couldn’t see then

Sometimes losing somebody

Is how you finally meet yourself again

So come sit in my cardboard box for a minute

I’ve got nothing left to hide, so you can see what’s in it

Every broken piece of me

Every place I’ve ever been

Every version of myself

I don’t wanna be again

I loved you wrong

But God, I loved you

And if I could go back

I wouldn’t try to undo you

I’d just hold that moment

Before we knew we’d lose it

Come sit in my cardboard box for a minute

I thought pride was strength

Thought fear was love

Thought holding on tighter

Would somehow be enough

Funny how reflection

Never tells you what you wanna hear

It just holds up the mirror

Till the picture gets clear

I can see where I failed

I can see where I ran

I can finally forgive

Who I was back then

Not because he was right

Not because it didn’t hurt

But a man can’t grow

If he’s scared to touch the dirt

And I know now

Some things don’t need fixing

Some people leave your life

And somehow never really leave it

So come sit in my cardboard box for a minute

I’ve got nothing left to hide, so you can see what’s in it

Every broken piece of me

Every place I’ve ever been

Every version of myself

I don’t wanna be again

I loved you wrong

But God, I loved you

And if I could go back

I wouldn’t try to undo you

I’d just hold that moment

Before we knew we’d lose it

Come sit in my cardboard box for a minute

Maybe love ain’t keeping somebody

Maybe love is letting them go

Maybe growing up is realizing

There are things you’re never gonna know

Maybe I don’t need another answer

Maybe there ain’t another door

Maybe the point of losing everything

Was finding what was underneath the floor

And if someday

Somewhere

You think about me too

I hope you don’t remember

Only what I put you through

I hope somewhere between the bad nights

And everything we couldn’t save

You remember there was something real

Even if we gave it away

Come sit in my cardboard box for a minute

It’s beat to hell now

But somehow I’m still living in it

Got some memories in the corner

Got some photographs turned down

Got the man I used to be

And the man I’m becoming now

And I don’t need you back

To know I still love you

I don’t need another chance

To know what you meant

Some people are a chapter

Some people are a sentence

And some become the r