Lyrics
Dear you, I’m writing what I cannot say The words pile up but never find their way To your ears, to your heart, to anywhere at all You’ve built these walls so high, so thick, so tall I find myself confessing to a stranger Online and late at night about this danger That we’re in, that we’ve become, that we can’t see While you sit right there, but you’re not here with me
I tell my friends the things I should tell you About the distance growing, what we’re going through They listen to the words you’ll never hear While you scroll through your phone, pretending I’m not here I wish I could tell you how I feel so small When you look right through me like I’m just a wall But instead I type it out to faceless names Who somehow understand these broken games
I wish I could tell you But the silence grows I wish I could tell you But nobody knows
I wish I could tell you what’s eating me alive I wish I could tell you why I don’t feel alive When we’re in the same room but worlds apart I wish I could tell you you’re breaking my heart
Remember when we’d talk until the morning light? Now we can’t get through a simple “how was your night?” You’ve turned into a stranger wearing your face And I’m just talking to this empty space I spill my guts to anyone who’ll listen While you stare at screens with eyes that never glisten For me, for us, for what we used to be Before you locked away the only key
I wish I could tell you But you’ve built these walls I wish I could tell you But you never call
I wish I could tell you what’s eating me alive I wish I could tell you why I don’t feel alive When we’re in the same room but worlds apart I wish I could tell you you’re breaking my heart!
But why should I keep wishing? Why should I keep trying? When you’ve made it crystal clear That what we had is dying?
WHY CAN’T I TELL YOU WHAT’S EATING ME ALIVE?! WHY CAN’T I TELL YOU WHY I DON’T FEEL ALIVE?! WHY ARE WE IN THE SAME ROOM BUT WORLDS APART?! WHY WON’T YOU LISTEN TO MY BREAKING HEART?!
Why… why… why… Do I even try?
I wish I could tell you (“Tell you, tell you”) But it’s too late now (“Too late, too late”) I wish I could tell you (“Tell you, tell you”) But you’re already gone somehow