This quiet love was new to me
You bruised your heart to stop me from bleeding
Denied ourselves a life of peace
Now broken beyond belief

Love of mine
Heaven sent
You were so divine
A new religion

Now a heart
Two halves make more
We fall apart
Create a vortex

Of circumstance
These second chances
Parade of dirt
Collapsing under

But you deserved
More than words

This quiet love was new to me
You bruised your heart to stop me from bleeding
Denied ourselves a life of peace
Now broken beyond belief

The silence still, it beckons me
Bouquet of words with knives for teeth
I gave you all, it was close to nothing
Broken beyond belief
Broken beyond belief

The simple things
We never said
Broke up rhythm
Thus cofermenting

You paid a price
I never did
Made me a shell
Of forged promises

I'm fortunate
You hand fed me
A broken mud-filled
Masterpiece

But you deserved
More than words

This quiet love was new to me
You bruised your heart to stop me from bleeding
Denied ourselves a life of peace
Now broken beyond belief

The silence still, it beckons me
Bouquet of words with knives for teeth
I gave you all, it was close to nothing
Broken beyond belief

Created love
Out of shrapnel scars
I was never healed
We never are

You gave me life when
Things got hard
But I was never healed
We never are

This quiet love was new to me
You bruised your heart to stop me from bleeding
Denied ourselves a life of peace
Now broken beyond belief
Cried out my lungs, I wept for thee
Tend to yourself I'm not worth saving
Hundredth time this close to leaving
Broken beyond belief
I broke you beyond belief