Split the Ropes

You left a dent in me

Like a boot in the door

I still hear it shut

When the house gets cold

Your name in my mouth

Tastes like old rust

I held that line too long

Till it turned to dust

And I bite my tongue

'Cause I know your shape

All these broken vows

Still spell my name

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

Still tied to the pain

Still pulling both ways

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

You want me gone

I want more than ash

I wore your silence

Like a chain on my chest

Every slammed-down word

Sat like a weight

Now I pace these scars

Like a room with no floor

Trying to stand up straight

While the walls still pour

And I bite my tongue

'Cause I know your shape

All these broken vows

Still spell my name

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

Still tied to the pain

Still pulling both ways

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

You want me gone

I want more than ash

Say what you came to say

Or leave me here to burn

I’m not your soft place

I’m the knife that learned

I buried my shame

In the mud and grit

Now I drag it up

And I spit on it

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

Still tied to the pain

Still pulling both ways

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

You want me gone

I want more than ash

We split the ropes

We split the ropes

I can bleed and stand

I can break and stay