The crack in the door
Gets wider each day
As you keep needing more
Signs I'm not okay
Haven't you understood
That I don't want you to execute
The tasks my mending needs
But to prevent the bleed
Act as a shield
And notice the fired arrows
Before they reach me, harrowed?
You listen then forget what I say
Patch then drop me post-affray

They told you tales of magic
Of how you could get the girl
Like it's some sort of tragic
Story to catch the pearl
But what about keeping it?
Your math won't do it
Add some flowers
Multiply the favors
To divide the anger
And strategize your love
But tell me
Why can't you see
That the equation is me?

24 years of tied hands
Of cracks that never mend
24 that left me drained
And still nothing has changed
Now my tongue's sore and weak
Of crooning my chaos on repeat
So I won't say it again
And I'll find another man
Who'll follow my map
And cement the gaps
You never descried
In-between my sighs

They told you tales of magic
Of how you could get the girl
Like it's some sort of tragic
Story to catch the pearl
But what about keeping it?
Your math won't do it
Add some flowers
Multiply the favors
To divide the anger
And strategize your love
But tell me
Why can't you see
That the equation is me?

And I know I'm in your heart
But honey it gets hard
To flow through your veins
When you don't breathe my rain
So this is me leaving
Our gate-shut Eden
From which the fruits have rotten
And spurting to hell I've fallen
Then maybe you'll realize some day
You had everything but let me slip away

They told you tales of magic
Of how you could get the girl
Like it's some sort of tragic
Story to catch the pearl
But what about keeping it?
Your math didn't do it
Gone the flowers
Keep all your favors
Couldn't divide my anger
With a strategized love
So tell me
Why couldn't you see
That the equation was me?