Let Me Out

You button up your shirt I’m watching from the glass Your jaw is set like stone But our hands still overlap You’re just a trick of light A shimmer on your skin If I don’t say your name You can’t pull me in Let me out Let me out I’m the dress behind the door you never open I’m the taste you spit out just to stay unbroken Say you don’t want me Say you don’t want this I don’t know I don’t know What happens if I'm wrong I trace a softer face On your tired Stubborn bones I laugh in painted lips From this body I disown You’re wearing all my fears Like sequins on my skin I’ve built a life of “sir” How do I step out of it? You keep me in the closet Like a secret you keep locked away But darling I am every Broken promise inside me Let me out Let me out I’m the dress behind the door you never open I’m the taste you spit out just to stay unbroken Say you don’t want me Say you don’t want this If I let go If I let go Do I lose all of this? I light a single candle Hoping the light will blur your shape If you can’t see me clearly Maybe then I can still escape But I am in the smoke In the flutter of your breath In every name you dream Instead of signing at your desk How long can we be strangers Inside the same soft chest? Let me out Let me out I’m the dress behind the door you never open I’m the word you never dare to leave unspoken Tell me you hate me Tell me I don’t... Let me out Let me out I’m the life behind the lie you keep defending Every road you’re scared of taking starts and ends here Say you don’t want me Say you don’t want this