Open Door Reckoning

I keep my answers folded tight Like hospital sheets at night

Your name still taps the hallway door But I don’t open it

anymore (clean)

There’s a story in the drywall lines

And it’s been learning how to breathe

If I say it out loud this time

Will you still look at me (ahhhh)

That door swings open on its own And every step I took

comes home I won’t protect the pretty lie

I’ll set it down and let it die Family secret,

finally spoken (oh)

Mama kept the radio loud

So nobody heard the arguing out

We learned to smile like it was fine With bitten lips and

perfect time (hmm)

I can feel the floorboards shift

Like the house is listening in

If you ask me what I saw

I won’t flinch again (yeah)

That door swings open on its own And every step I took

comes home I won’t protect the pretty lie

I’ll set it

down and let it die Family secret,

finally spoken

(no

more)

Say it plain: it happened here

Say the year, say who was near

No more prayers around the truth

No more teeth marks on my youth (hah)

That door swings open on its own And every step I took

comes home I won’t protect the pretty lie

I’ll set it down and let it die Family secret,

finally spoken

And now listen—how quiet it is (ahhhh)