If I tell you

The shattered pieces of a life I left behind

Rattle in my heart, clutter up my mind

If I try to tell you all about it, will you hear?

Or will you go screaming in the night?

It’s not your business, no one’s business

What I left there in the past

My privacy, my secrets, my regrets

Pain never earned, nor surpassed

Yet demon memories badger

And someone wise once said

Let it out, talk about it, sometime soon

Sometime before you’re dead

‘Cause it might kill you if you don’t

Demons eat you from the inside out

So, if I try to tell you all about it, will you hear?

Or will you go screaming in the night?

I tried to live right in the moment

But that’s just too small, too tight

Hope is all about wishful futures

Where we make it all come right

And the only template we create

Is from what we’ve experienced so far

Through our doing, reading, hearing

Thinking about who we are

So, if I try to tell you all about it, will you hear?

Will you stay near?

Or will you go screaming in the night?