Paper Walls

[Verse 1]

Late bus home

Face pressed on the window

Phone light glow

Your name on my pillow

Half-read texts

Drafts I never send you

Heart in my throat

Every night I pretend to—

[Pre-Chorus]

Say what I mean

But I swallow it down

Talk to the ceiling

Till the room spins around

[Chorus]

I’m screaming into paper walls

Hoping that you hear me through it all

Every little crack

Every line I draw

Spells your name

Your name

Your name

I’m falling in a quiet way

Trying not to scare the light away

If I tear it down

Will you wanna stay?

Say my name

My name

My name

[Verse 2]

Old T-shirt

Still smells like your perfume

Laugh ‘til it hurts

Then I’m empty in my room

Friends move on

But I’m stuck on that first night

You said my name

And it finally felt like mine

[Pre-Chorus]

Say what I feel

But it catches in rain

Words on the ceiling

Dripping with your name

[Chorus]

I’m screaming into paper walls

Hoping that you hear me through it all

Every little crack

Every line I draw

Spells your name

Your name

Your name

I’m falling in a quiet way

Trying not to scare the light away

If I tear it down

Will you wanna stay?

Say my name

My name

My name

[Bridge]

If I rip this room apart

Will you step inside my heart? (oh)

Every taped-up corner

Hides a piece of what you started

If I let the letters bleed

Would you finally see me?

Or just walk right past

All this honesty

[Chorus]

I’m screaming into paper walls

Hoping that you hear me through it all

Every little crack

Every line I draw

Spells your name

Your name

Your name

I’m falling in a quiet way

Trying not to scare the light away

If I tear it down

Will you wanna stay?

Say my name

My name

My name

[Outro]

Just your name

Soft in the dark (hey)

Till the walls fall down

And you hear my heart