Stop Pushing Me

Why you gotta push me when I go quiet

You know I ain’t good at talking when I’m trying

To keep from saying something I can’t take back

Yeah I’ve been down that road, we both know that

You get fired up, I feel it too

But I ain’t trying to light that fuse

I’m just sitting here, biting my tongue

Trying not to come undone

Yeah you think silence means I don’t care

But I’m fighting words hanging in the air

So stop pushing me, pushing me

I’m hanging on by a thread, can’t you see?

If I don’t talk, there’s a reason why

I’m just trying to get us through tonight

Stop pushing me, pushing me

Ain’t every quiet what you think it means

Yeah I love you, I ain’t leaving

But stop pushing me

You say I shut down when you talk ‘bout mine

Like I don’t hear it every single time

One’s this, one’s that, yeah I let it go

‘Cause I know where that road goes

I know you care, I know you do

That’s why I don’t say what I want to

‘Cause one wrong word and it all goes south

And we can’t take that back once it’s out

I’m holding the line, trying to be strong

Just keeping us from going wrong

So stop pushing me, pushing me

I’m hanging on by a thread, can’t you see?

If I don’t talk, there’s a reason why

I’m just trying to get us through tonight

Stop pushing me, pushing me

Ain’t every quiet what you think it means

Yeah I love you, I ain’t leaving

But stop pushing me

Yeah this time I broke, I said it out loud

“You don’t say nothing nice,” and it hit you hard

I didn’t mean you don’t love ‘em—I know that’s true

That’s what I was trying to keep from you

Now we’re right back in that dead-end road

Where the hurt sits in the quiet, cold

So stop pushing me, pushing me

Before we say what we don’t mean

If I go quiet, let me be

That’s me trying to keep the peace

Stop pushing me, pushing me

Don’t turn love into a memory

Yeah I love you, I ain’t leaving

But stop pushing me

If I don’t say it… there’s a reason