I Know You Don't Mean It - Vanessa Carlton

On the outside

You’re alive

On the inside

You are crawling

A lifetime

Of planning

Can be cancelled

In a moment

Now my home is breaking

Ground is crumbling underneath

Can’t carry on this way

I release you

And call this love

Cannot fix my quiet one

I know you don’t really mean it

I know you don’t really mean it

I have a hammer

And a nail

For an ocean

Of despair

I’m useless

Here

And it feels

So unfair

Wondering what I was missing

Was I writing you in

Were you my invention

I release you

And call this love

I cannot fix my quiet one

I know you don’t really mean it

I know you don’t really mean it

Secrets will kill us

We’re dying in the dark

My love can let you go

It wasn’t made to hold you down

It wasn’t made to hold you down

I release you.

I call this love

I release you.

I call this love

I know you don’t really mean it

I know you don’t

I know you don’t really mean it

I know you don’t