Cracks in My Calm

(yeah) I built these walls like a front porch fence,

Painted on steady, made of confidence.

But the nights get long,

and the whiskey talks,

And that’s when the quiet starts showin’ the faults.

There’s cracks in my calm,

lines in my smile,

Storm in the silence I’ve been hiding awhile.

Tried to be steady,

tried to stay strong,

But the truth keeps leakin’ through all along.

Yeah, you can see what I’ve been runnin’ from— In the cracks

in my calm.

Mama said “Son, don’t let ‘em see you bleed,” So I learned

how to bury what was hurtin’ me.

But a broken heart don’t mend with pride,

It just finds a way to slip outside.

There’s cracks in my calm,

lines in my smile,

Storm in the silence I’ve been hiding awhile.

Tried to be steady,

tried to stay strong,

But the truth keeps leakin’ through all along.

Yeah, you can see what I’ve been runnin’ from— In the cracks

in my calm.

Like thunder rollin’ under clear blue skies,

Like teardrops waitin’ behind dry eyes,

You can paint it pretty,

but it won’t hold on— Forever’s too heavy when the cracks get

strong.

There’s cracks in my calm,

lines in my smile,

Storm in the silence I’ve been hiding awhile.

I ain’t unbreakable, but I still belong,

In the fight, in the fire,

in the same ol’ song.

Yeah, the truth’s

been showin’ all along— Through the cracks in my calm.