One Room to Keep

[Verse 1]
I keep a list of names inside my coat
Each one a door I swear I’ll hold
I patch the cracks with both my hands
Then watch my own seams split and fold
You bring your winter to my room
I give you half the chair, the flame
By morning, every corner’s yours
I can’t remember my own name

[Pre-Chorus]
How much of me can I divide
Before there’s nothing left inside?

[Chorus]
I want to mend every heart I meet
Give every hurt the love it needs
But every piece I hand away
Leaves less of me to face the day
I reach for you; I come apart
A crowded room, an empty heart
If I can’t save myself tonight
Who holds me when I lose the fight?

[Verse 2]
Your brother calls; your mother’s sick
Your friend has nowhere safe to go
I learn the passwords, learn the dates
Become the map that others know
Then someone asks me what I want
And all the words fall out of place
I count the fractures like old roads
That lead me back to no one’s face

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought that love meant never leaving
I never learned to stop the bleeding

[Chorus]
I want to mend every heart I meet
Give every hurt the love it needs
But every piece I hand away
Leaves less of me to face the day
I reach for you; I come apart
A crowded room, an empty heart
If I can’t save myself tonight
Who holds me when I lose the fight?

[Bridge]
You don’t have to break to prove you care
You don’t owe every wound your air
Let the door stay shut sometimes
Let a no be still kind
I can love you, I can stay
And keep one room that bears my name

[Final Chorus]
I want to mend the hearts I meet
And keep my own beneath my feet
I’ll give with open hands, not veins
I’ll sit beside you through the rain
I reach for you, but I remain
Not every hurt is mine to claim
If I can’t save the whole wide world
I’ll hold one heart—and let it heal

[Outro]
One heart, one breath, one room to keep
I’m here, I’m whole enough to sleep