[Verse 1]
We talk like slamming doors
Soft words
Hard floors
You ask
"Are you okay?"
I throw the question away
You’re half-turned in the hallway
I’m half-true in my head
Every sentence is a sideways step
Closer to the edge
[Chorus]
We live behind paper walls
Every word cuts
Every word falls
I don’t wanna leave
I don’t know how to stay
Trapped in a house built on almost and always
Fighting every line that we say
Till it all feels like lies anyway
I don’t wanna give up
I just don’t see a way
[Verse 2]
You say
"We’ll be better" (yeah)
Like it’s some magic spell
But the promise keeps on echoing
Down a stairwell to hell
I hold your shaking shoulder
While I’m shaking inside
We keep calling this “forever”
But it feels like we just hide
[Chorus]
We live behind paper walls
Every word cuts
Every word falls
I don’t wanna leave
I don’t know how to stay
Trapped in a house built on almost and always
Fighting every line that we say
Till it all feels like lies anyway
I don’t wanna give up
I just don’t see a way
[Bridge]
Is there a door I can’t see?
Or are we both just too scared
Too tired to find it?
If I reach out
Will you meet me halfway
Or swing first and call that trying?
[Chorus]
We live behind paper walls
Every word cuts
Every word falls
I don’t wanna leave
I don’t know how to stay
Trapped in a house built on almost and always
Fighting every line that we say
Till it all feels like lies anyway
I don’t wanna give up
I just don’t see a way
I still don’t wanna give up
Even when I can’t see a way