Bleeding Keys

I wear a face

that nobody knows Smiling in places where nobody goes

I learned how to laugh when my heart went numb How to

say “I'm okay” when the damage had come Everybody sees the mask,

nobody sees the cracks I carry whole storms underneath my black

I loved like a fool,

gave my soul with no guard Now every memory feels like a

house with no heart

You said forever, I believed every word Now forever's just a sentence

that I wish I had never heard I walk through the city

like a ghost in the rain Trying to bury old dreams underneath

all this pain

Life keeps moving, but I'm stuck in the past Watching pieces of

myself disappear through the glass

I'm dead inside, but I still breathe Got a thousand words and

none I can speak I wear this mask so nobody knows How

lonely it gets when the whole world goes I loved somebody,

then I lost myself Put my heart on the shelf,

left it there for my health If you ask me I'm fine,

I'll give you that lie I'm alive on the outside,

but I'm dead inside

Single piano, one note at a time Like the last little light

that I can't make shine I count all the nights that I

talked to the dark

Asking empty rooms why they left me this scar Maybe love was

a lesson, maybe I was too blind Maybe losing you was losing

my mind

I still see your shadow when the room gets cold

Still hear your voice in the stories I told

I put on different faces depending who's near A friend for the

happy, a stranger for fear Nobody gets the version that sits in

my room

Staring at the ceiling,

making peace with the gloom

What if the mask is the only face I have?

What if the person I was never comes back?

What if love was just a beautiful lie?

What if I'm scared to live more than I'm scared to die?

I don't wanna die,

I just hate feeling this way Want a reason to wake up

and a reason to stay But the mirror keeps asking who I

became And I don't recognize the eyes behind my name So I

write every wound till the page turns black Put the weight in

the rhyme, never carry it back Maybe one day I'll forgive what

I can't change Maybe one day this emptiness won't feel the same

Until then, let the piano tell the truth Let it mourn all

the years I thought I had to lose I may be broken,

but broken isn't the end Maybe loneliness is a place,

not a sentence

Maybe beneath this mask there's still a face

Maybe beneath this hurt there's still a place Where love can return

without leaving a scar Where I can look in the mirror and

know who I are

Tonight I don't have answers,

I only have this song

But if I'm still writing,

maybe I'm still holding on