Outside Your Heart

Intro — Distant Vocal

I still know the shape of the doorway

I just don't know the way inside

Verse 1

You used to leave the hallway burning

Like a lighthouse calling me home

Now every window wears a curtain

And every room has turned to stone

I hear your pulse behind the plaster

A quiet life I can't get near

I put my ear against the silence

But all it says is, "You're not welcome here"

Pre-Chorus

Was I a fire you had to bury?

A name too heavy to repeat?

You built a kingdom out of distance

Then left me freezing in the street

Chorus

You closed me out of your heart

Changed every lock in the dark

Now I'm a ghost at the gates

Calling your name while you look away

You closed me out of your heart

But left all your scars on my arms

How can I leave when every road

Still leads me back to a door you closed?

I'm outside

Outside your heart

Verse 2

I watched the frost consume the garden

Where we swore nothing good would die

Now all our promises are headstones

With weathered words and crooked lines

You wear your absence like an armour

I wear your memory like a wound

You found a way to stop the bleeding

By cutting me out of you

Pre-Chorus

Was I a storm beneath your ceiling?

A truth you couldn't bear to keep?

You built your walls to stop the damage

Then buried both of us beneath

Chorus

You closed me out of your heart

Changed every lock in the dark

Now I'm a ghost at the gates

Calling your name while you look away

You closed me out of your heart

But left all your scars on my arms

How can I leave when every road

Still leads me back to a door you closed?

I'm outside

Outside your heart

Post-Chorus

Let me in

Or let me go

Don't leave me breathing

At the edge of hope

Let me in

Or let me fall

Don't keep me waiting

Outside your walls

Bridge — Stripped Back

Maybe I mistook your shelter

For somewhere I belonged

Maybe I called it forever

Because I needed somewhere warm

But love shouldn't feel like begging

With both knees against the floor

And home shouldn't be a person

Who doesn't live there anymore

Build

So tell me—

Did you ever hear me breaking?

Did the silence drown me out?

Did you feel my hands still shaking

When you turned the deadbolt down?

Breakdown

You made a prison of your pain

And sentenced me without a name

I broke my bones against your walls

Just to prove I cared at all

But I won't die outside your door

I won't beg to be ignored

Keep your kingdom

Keep your scars

I'll build a home outside heart

Final Chorus — Full Band

Outro — Clean Vocal