Fractured by Love

[Verse 1]
I learn the shape of every room
The names beside the coat hooks
You laugh about your cracked blue mug
I keep the way your whole face looks

At every stop, a different thread
A different kind of tender
I love the way you bite your lip
The way you make December warmer

[Pre-Chorus]
I never meant to make a promise
With every open hand
But every heart I hold is precious
And I don’t know where to stand

[Chorus]
I’m falling in love everywhere I go
In a hundred ways that only you could know
Each one a card, each one a home
Stacked so high on hands that shake below
If one slips, all the careful rooms come down
And every heart I love is in the house
I want to keep you safe, I want to let you go
I’m fractured by the love I can’t make one

[Verse 2]
You save the seat beside the window
She sends the songs at closing time
He tells me things he’s never said
And you bring peaches from the roadside stand

No love is lesser, none a copy
Each has its own small constellation
But I can’t swear the cards won’t scatter
When truth arrives without invitation

[Pre-Chorus]
I never meant to make a promise
With every open hand
But every heart I hold is precious
And I don’t know where to stand

[Chorus]
I’m falling in love everywhere I go
In a hundred ways that only you could know
Each one a card, each one a home
Stacked so high on hands that shake below
If one slips, all the careful rooms come down
And every heart I love is in the house
I want to keep you safe, I want to let you go
I’m fractured by the love I can’t make one

[Bridge]
I can hear the paper bending
At the quietest goodbye
I can see the whole room leaning
Though nobody asks me why

I don’t want to make you a secret
I don’t want to make you compete
I just wish my hands were steadier
When the cards begin to leave

[Breakdown]
One for your kindness
One for her fire
One for the truth
That I can’t retire

[Final Chorus]
I’m falling in love everywhere I go
In a hundred ways that only you could know
Each one a card, each one a home
Built from every promise I don’t know how to hold
If one slips, all the careful rooms come down
And every heart I love can feel the ground
I want to keep you safe, I want to tell the truth
I’m fractured, but my love for you is true

[Outro]
Not one of you was ever less
Not one of you was just a phase
I love you each in your own language
And I’m afraid of what that makes