Thick Skin

This town never seemed so small Sitting here staring at these walls City limits never seemed so far No other place has ever left a scar This big, never hit this hard And maybe it was you maybe it was me Maybe it was everything The Friday night lights The winter snow So white and so cold Your hand reaches for mine And it sends shivers down my spine And I’m biting my tongue Trying not to tell you you’re the one I would give up this live for I’d die just to hold you a second more, more, more   It was that old house that I called home And soon I knew the day would come To walk away, to move on from what I’ve always known And dive headfirst into the great unknown And I’d have to leave this place behind me In the rearview mirror wrapped up in pine trees And long nights and secrets we’ll keep Knee-deep in the memories Your hand reaches for mine And it send shivers down my spine And I’m biting my tongue T...

Her sadness rests on the knuckles beneath her chin Her defeated eyes hanging heavy, her patience wearing thin The darkness had knocked on her door with force And instead of getting up to answer, she resides in her remorse She sits at the table staring blankly into the night Where stars and galaxies far away reflect what little light Surrounds her She wonders what it would be like to walk amongst those stars To romp about and feel as though she wasn’t stuck behind the iron bars Of the prison she has designed Inside her own mind Making herself the victim of her own petty crimes Making herself believe she didn’t have the strength to carry on And so she let herself believe all of the problems she faced were her burdens and hers alone That she lived and died by her own hand That she instilled the weakness in her knees that withdrew her strength to stand She believed that she had failed, and so she had She believed that she was the reason her eyes looke...