I Break Things

Looking out the window where the snow is falling under the street light

This view is not my own it's just a temporary place to stay tonight

I'll sit at the piano just as long as I can find a melody

And finish it before the ground turns white then maybe I can fall asleep

It's near the end of January already the New Year's feeling old

How much more can we take before the center loses faith and cannot hold

I loved you from the first and I promised through the worst I wouldn't leave

But I'm the one who let you down let my leaving be a gift from you to me

Cause I break things

I hold the things I love the most then throw them so they shatter on the floor

Pick up all the pieces try to glue them back the way they were before

I've done this all my life breaking vows and dishes in a rage

Tonight alone here in this house I'm lying in the lonely bed I've made

I break things

I break things

It rarely snows in Nashville only once every few years the ground turns white

We make our angels on our backs no matter that it melts by morning light

This town has magic if you know to look beyond the shadow and the dark

I hope it brings us back together putting back the pieces of our hearts

I hope it brings us back together putting back the pieces of our hearts

 

Because I break things