Porcelain Heart

[Intro]

[piano: three slow, isolated single notes in minor]

[detuned music box fades in, barely there]

[Verse 1]

Cup on the counter

Lipstick ghost on white ceramic

Your jacket still hanging

Like you might walk back through the damage

Phone face down

I still flip it, out of habit

Unread words

Screenshot summers I can’t manage

[Chorus]

Porcelain heart

Hairline cracks you never saw

Held it too hard

You let me slip right from your palms

I’m sweeping up

All the pieces you forgot

Porcelain heart

Shattered quiet in this spot

(so soft, it hurts)

[Chorus]

Porcelain heart

Hairline cracks you never saw

Held it too hard

You let me slip right from your palms

I’m sweeping up

All the pieces you forgot

Porcelain heart

Shattered quiet in this spot

(can you hear it?)

(just a little)

[Bridge]

I whisper, “I’m fine”

To the mirror, to the tiles, to the night

If I say it enough

Will it glue back what you left behind?

[Chorus]

Porcelain heart

Hairline cracks you never saw

Held it too hard

You let me slip right from your palms

I’m sweeping up

All the pieces you forgot

Porcelain heart

Shattered quiet in this spot

Just me and the floor

And the sound of what we’re not