[Intro]
Toy car on the counter
baby shoes by the door
One plate in the sink
broken crib on the floor
[Verse 1]
You said “I’ll be right back”
keys jingled like a laugh
Left your favorite jacket
and our pictures on the glass
I’m pacing with a bottle
hair tied, eyes red
Cartoons on the TV
but it’s war in my head
[Chorus]
I’m raising hell with one free hand
Other arm wrapped ‘round my little man (yeah)
You walked out, but I still stand
Broken heart, but I still stand
Screaming love, hurt, all this rage
You wrote me out, I burned the page
I’m not your ghost, not your demand
I’m here alone, and I still stand
[Verse 2]
You missed his first steps
I caught ‘em barefoot, in tears
Kitchen tiles, 3 a.m.
he stumbled through my fears
Tiny fingers on my cheek
wiping what you made
How can someone so small
hold up all this weight?
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
You don’t hear the midnight cries
You don’t see the unpaid lights
You don’t feel his sleepy breath
when I bargain with the night
[growled ad-lib] All this anger
[whispered vocals] all this ache
But I bend
I don’t break
[Chorus]