Safer Place To Put It

I could feel the weather changing

Before anybody spoke

Learned to hold the weight of others

Learned to carry what got broke

Built campfires for the lonely

Held the match against the wind

Called it love when I was hurting

Just to let somebody in

Some folks loved the light I carried

Some just liked staying warm

They would reach for me in darkness

Then disappear by morning

I could see the good inside them

Even when it hurt me too

Stayed too long beside the wreckage

Thinking love could pull us through

I don’t need a smaller heart

I don’t need to hide it

Maybe I was never meant

To bleed to prove I meant it

I don’t need to close myself

Just because somebody couldn’t hold it

I don’t need a smaller heart

Just a safer place to put it

I got real good at surviving

Turning hurt into a song

But peace don’t come from staying somewhere

You already know is wrong

Now I want something steady

Something honest, something true

Arms that know how to hold love

Without asking me to lose me too

I don’t need a smaller heart

I don’t need to hide it

Maybe I was never meant

To bleed to prove I meant it

I don’t need to close myself

Just because somebody couldn’t hold it

I don’t need a smaller heart

Just a safer place to put it

If love comes, let it come easy

No more chaos, no more leaving

I still believe what’s meant for me

Won’t make me beg for peace to keep it

I don’t need a colder soul

Don’t want to lose my wonder

Still believe in porch lights

Creek water and thunder

And I don’t need a smaller heart

No, I was never wrong for feeling

I just need arms safe enough

To hold all this tenderness without leaving