You ask me nothing, you just move slow
Like you already know
I keep my hurt in a careful place
Behind a laugh and a steady face
But late at night when the room gets still
I feel what I never will
I'm good at living out the truth
Good at sounding bulletproof
But there's a tiredness under my skin
I don't know where to begin
I don't think your silence means you're cold
I think it's how you learned to hold
Every ache you couldn't show
Every wound you couldn't close
You don't have to make it clear
You don't have to disappear
I can love you without needing
Every reason for your fear
Love me where it hurts
Where the words don't come out right
Where I hide behind I'm okay
And lose myself at night
Love me when I'm quiet
When my hands don't know what to do
When I can't be easy
Let me still be loved by you
Hold me at the edges
Where I'm scared that I'll be left
Don't ask me to be whole first
Just stay close to what is kept
Love me where it hurts
Where the tender parts are worst
If you don't leave the broken places
I might learn they're not a curse
I learned to cry with the water on
So no one knew when I came undone
I made my sadness small and neat
Folded it under clean white sheets
I used to fear I was too much pain
Too many clouds in a pretty frame
So I wore life like a borrowed dress
And called it happiness
But you don't laugh when my voice gets thin
You don't rush to climb back in
You leave a chair beside my grief
And let it breathe with me
Love me where it hurts
Where the words don't come out right
I will hear you in the silence
I will sit there through the night
Love me when I'm quiet
When my hands don't know what to do
You don't have to be easy
To be held by someone true
Hold me at the edges
Where I'm scared that I'll be left
Don't ask me to be whole first
Just stay close to what is kept
Love me where it hurts
Where the tender parts are worst
If you don't leave the broken places
I might learn they're not a curse
I don't need a perfect kind of love
Just one that doesn't bruise the softest parts
I don't need a promise made of gold
Just one hand patient with my heart
If I tremble, don't look away
If I fall quiet, I'll try to stay
We don't have to heal tonight
Just don't make the hurting worse
Come and meet me in the dark
Love me where it hurts (hurts)
Love me where it hurts (hurts)
Love me where it hurts
Where I don't know how to open
Stay beside the tender parts
And I'll try to stay unbroken
Love me where it hurts
When I can't find the words
If you hold me there gently
I'll try to love me first
Don't leave the tender parts of me
Don't hide the tired heart from me
No need to shine, no need to prove
Just let me be
Soft
With you
If I say I'm fine (I'll listen twice)
Love me where it hurts tonight
Mm-mm, mm
Love me where it hurts tonight
Love me where it hurts tonight
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