Walls Before I Was Born

Verse

Concrete cracks beneath my shoes at midnight

Your window flickers like a promise I shouldn't keep

I built this city block by block before you ever got here

Nineteen and building something every wall for every fear

Every fence line I drew was one less piece of me

Left myself nothing but the view from what could never be

Pre-Chorus

So tell me why the door's still closed

Tell me if this whole thing's just a cost

I don't need you to break it down

Just need something honest, no renown

If I'm already standing where the daylight breaks

Then what do we have left to lose but time?

Chorus

Maybe walls before I was born were always meant for this

Learning how to breathe with less of everything

I've been waiting on a storm that never came through yet

Maybe breaking's just something my heart knew better than to do

I don't need the whole thing falling down tonight

Just the quiet before it hits, feeling every light

Verse

Windows fog up faster when I'm talking too long

Every version of you I build gets torn before it grows strong

The roof over me is paper thin and gray

Still I carry what could never hold a ray

I used to think this block was built to last forever

Turns out it was just holding me from seeing better

Pre-Chorus

So tell me why the door's still closed

Tell me if this whole thing's just a cost

I don't need you to break it down

Just need something honest, no renown

If I'm already standing where the daylight breaks

Then what do we have left to lose but time?

Chorus

Maybe walls before I was born were always meant for this

Learning how to breathe with less of everything

I've been waiting on a storm that never came through yet

Maybe breaking's just something my heart knew better than to do

I don't need the whole thing falling down tonight

Just the quiet before it hits, feeling every light

Bridge

Some days the sun comes up behind a wall

Same old fence line but a little less tall

That's okay