Leave the Page Unfinished

[Verse 1]
You keep a ruler by the bed
And mark the margins of your dreams
Every sentence stands at attention
Every page knows what it means
You can name the hinge, the turn, the frame
You can diagram a door
But you never step outside the line
To see what all that ink is for
[Chorus]
You know how a story holds together
You know where every seam should lie
But a heart is not a thing you master
By explaining why it cries
There’s a little girl beneath your careful words
Still waiting to be let in
You can write the shape of being human
But you have to feel it on your skin
[Verse 2]
You polish every honest sentence
Till it shines like borrowed glass
Call the wound a useful image
Then turn away before it lasts
Your friends leave coats across the kitchen chairs
And laugh with crumbs between their teeth
You watch them like a study for a book
Instead of taking what they leave
[Chorus]
You know how a story holds together
You know where every seam should lie
But a heart is not a thing you master
By explaining why it cries
There’s a little girl beneath your careful words
Still waiting to be let in
You can write the shape of being human
But you have to feel it on your skin
[Bridge]
Put down the pencil, leave the sentence wrong
Let the silence say what you can’t arrange
Call your sister, ask how she has been
And stay when the answer starts to change
[Final Chorus]
You know how a story holds together
Now let one loosen in your hands
There’s no perfect phrase that can replace you
When you finally understand
That little girl beneath your careful words
Was never asking you to win
You can write the shape of being human
When you let the human in
[Outro]
Leave the page unfinished
Leave the window open wide
Let the day come in unedited
Let somebody sit beside you