Unseen Heartbeats

I spent seven years handing you my chest Wide open,

waiting for your reply I looked for your heart inside the rest

Just an empty silhouette against the sky

Always measuring what I lacked

Trying to earn the right

to

stay

And when you walked away

I thought my ribs would cave

I called it grief back then

It could never be love when it's carried by one

It was only my hands reaching into the sun

I spent all that time trying to fill up your space

Now I'm learning to look at my face

And love who is left

(oh, love who is left)

I was never enough in your careful scale Every compromise carved me

thin Now the silence is sweet where you used to prevail And

the morning

is letting me in

I don't mourn what was never returned

Because when you walked away I finally saw the truth

It wasn't love that broke

It could never be love when it's carried by one

It was only my hands reaching into the sun

I spent all that time trying to fill up your space

Now I'm learning to look at my face

And love who is left

(yeah, love who is left)

I poured an ocean into empty hands

Wondering why they ran dry

Now I give that grace back to who I am

(to who I am)

It was only my heart all along

And I'm learning to love her again (mmm)