I don’t understand you
Where’d you get the nerve to withdraw
From all that we had made here
All the roads we paved here, it’s not
The picture we had painted
In the frames along the hallway
You don’t want to talk it over
You dont want to see it my way
I can feel us growing older
As we’re racing down the driveway
I’ll just keep talking to these walls
Because they hear me
When you’re not hearing me at all
Try to understand you
And where you got the nerve to give up
On all the words you graced me with
kindness and embraced me
it’s not the scene that we imagined
Strolling through the grass
And you don’t want to talk it over
You dont want to see it my way
I can feel us growing older
As we’re racing down the highway
I’ll just keep talking to these walls
Because they hear me
When you’re not hearing me at all
Oh, Peeling paint what have you seen
How many tears how very mean
I blush and cower at the thought of your being
We’ve worsened the rot, encouraged your undoing
Brought forth the end, gave way to your ruining
If I just keep talking to these walls
Because they hear me
When you’re not hearing me at all
If I just keep talking to these walls
Because they hear me
We will crumble while they fall
credits
from These Walls,
released March 27, 2020
Written, performed, recorded and produced by MACK & BEN
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