Fracture Line

Lyrics

Verse 1
You slammed the door like a warning shot through the frame
Every silence in the house started spelling your name
I learned the rhythm of your footsteps down the hall
Like a countdown to the moment everything would fall
You never stayed long enough to call it a home
Just came back when it suited what you wanted to own
And I remember the way your expression would change
A flicker of anger you’d bury in place

Pre-Chorus
Like I saw what no one else ever seemed to see
Then you’d smile like it never happened underneath

Chorus
You drew a FRACTURE LINE straight across my bones
Said it was an accident, said I slipped alone
But I was barely even here when you made it that way
Yeah the damage was already made
You can rewrite the past, you can try to pretend
But you walked out once and came back the same man again

Verse 2
You learned how to shift it, how to play the part
Turn a cold look to kindness in a flicker of the dark
That split-second crack in the mask that you wore
Then a different expression before anyone saw more
And you came back at twelve like nothing had changed
At fourteen like the distance could erase your name
Trying to buy us with pieces of something you’d fake
Like love was a price you could offer and take

Pre-Chorus
But I memorized the silence between what you’d show
And the version of you that you didn’t let go

Chorus
You drew a FRACTURE LINE straight across my bones
Said it was an accident, said I slipped alone
But I was barely even here when you made it that way
Yeah the damage was already made
You can rewrite the past, you can try to pretend
But you walked out once and came back the same man again
Bridge – stripped, tense
When it clicked
My collarbone split the void
The guilt on your face
A look you can’t erase
I didn’t have the words, just the feeling that stayed
Like something behind your eyes never fully behaved
No more holding the pieces just to keep you clean
No more rewriting what I’ve always seen
I saw it
Even when you thought I didn’t

Final Chorus
You drew a FRACTURE LINE straight across my bones
Said it was an accident, said I slipped alone
But I was barely even here when you made it that way
Yeah the damage was already made
You can rewrite the past, you can try to pretend
But you walked out once—
And you came back the same man again

Outro
One face for the world
One crack I remember