Let It Come Out

Verse 1

I keep a drawer for the things I almost said.

A cracked button.

A bus token.

Your name, folded small.

I wear my silence like a coat that never fits,

all elbows, all rainwater,

all the old mean weather.

I learned early:

some houses speak in slammed doors.

Some hands speak in empty pockets.

Some mouths stay shut

because the truth has teeth.

Pre-Chorus

But tonight,

I am tired of swallowing glass.

Tired of making myself small

just to fit inside the room.

Chorus

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

I have carried enough.

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

My chest was not made for cages.

Verse 2

I have seen my mother

stand at the sink after midnight,

her shoulders saying more than her lips.

I have seen boys laugh too loud

when they were scared.

I have seen my own face

in windows, in puddles,

in the stare I used to give myself

when I thought shame was a kind of home.

But home is a table.

Home is a lamp left on.

Home is a voice that says,

sit down, eat, stay.

Pre-Chorus

So I am practicing

the hard holy art

of telling the truth

before it hardens in my throat.

Chorus

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

I have carried enough.

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

My chest was not made for cages.

Bridge

If my voice shakes,

let it shake.

If it breaks,

let it break open.

I am not here

to be polished.

I am here

to be known.

Final Chorus

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

I have carried enough.

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

My chest was not made for cages.

Let it come out.

Let it come out.

I am still becoming.