Broken Ground

You put cracks in the blacktop,
Tore us loose at the seams.
Now I'm left with broken ground
Holding onto shattered dreams.
Why does being with you
Still feel like home to me?
Verse 1
I wake up tired
Needing your touch,
Need to leave, need to love,
My heart hits the brakes,
My feet hit the gas,
Love keeps slipping through the cracks.
You’re a familiar kind of wrong,
Feels like home but don’t feel strong.
A wildfire I can’t outrun,
Just meet me at the gates
Or watch me leave with the sun.
Chorus
Hold me close
Or let me go,
Love shouldn’t crack
The ground we know.
If this is home
Why do I drown?
I’m still standing
On broken ground.
Verse 2
I’m right here on the edge of gone,
Holding on but the feeling’s wrong.
You call it peace, I call it pain,
I’m losing myself trying to stay.
There’s two little hearts asleep down the hall,
They deserve more than slammed doors and arguing.
We need peace and harmony,
But I also don’t want to have a broken home.
Chorus
Hold me close
Or let me go,
Love shouldn’t crack
The ground we know.
If this is home
Why do I drown?
I’m still standing
On broken ground.
Outro
Don’t teach our kids
This is love that stays.
I’m paving the road
Before I lose my way,
Before the ground completely breaks.

Rnb female