Life of Secrets

Lyrics

Verse
Skeletons dance in the closet, bones rattling chains
Mama's medicine cabinet, daddy's poker game stains
Sister's abortion money, brother's parole papers
Grandmother's affairs with the deacon, whole family of traitors
Truth a loaded shotgun, barrel pointing at your temple
Every lie you ever told collecting in the rental
Space inside your chest where the heart supposed to beat
Now it's just a graveyard, bodies stacked concrete

Verse 2
Uncle touched the nephew, auntie knew and never spoke
Cousin dealing fentanyl, baby mama on the coke
Tax evasion, insurance fraud, the mortgage ain't been paid
Everybody smiling at the table, secrets getting laid
Underneath the Sunday roast, the gravy thick with guilt
Foundation of this family, crooked how we built
War chest full of ammunition nobody can see
Until the bomb goes off, shrapnel through the family tree

Chorus
Secrets make you weapons when the battle coming through
Break your loved ones' hearts or break yourself in two
What you hide in darkness always finds the light
Secrets the grenades you throwing in the fight

Verse 3
Found the text messages, lipstick on the collar bone
Twenty years of marriage, sleeping with a stranger's clone
Kids don't know their father catfishing on the internet
Mother stealing from the register, gambling on the debt
Brother's not your brother, that's your daddy's outside child
Kept it quiet forty years, the secret running wild
Through your veins like poison, arsenic and lies
Look into the mirror, don't recognize the eyes

Verse 4
Deployed overseas but really in a county jail
Told the kids you're serving, really you just out on bail
Restraining order buried in the glovebox of the truck
Domestic violence charges, said you running out of luck
Foreclosure notice hidden underneath the kitchen sink
Whole family bout to drown but you just pour another drink
Secrets the artillery, the tanks, the fighter jets
War you never wanted but the war you gonna get

Bridge
Too late when the truth detonates
Shrapnel through the dinner plates
Bodies in the living room
Secrets the atomic boom