Can't

Look me in the eye
Tell me you're here
'Cause I'm not blind
But I can't see you there

Colours go wild
Or they're gone today
Yet there's a brush in my hand
And I have to paint

I'll paint something you've never seen
Something from your wildest dreams
Hoping you'll forgive me
For my forced smiles, pretty lies
It's the best disguise I have

I can't talk to you the way you want me to
Can't crack jokes like I used to
Slipping, slipping away
Begging, begging to stay
You can't see me falling away
Hiding from the bad days
Pieces of a broken picture frame
Too shattered for tape

Smiley plasters
On an open wound
It's almost an insult
How they won't even stick to you

Do what you want
I won't shed a tear
That you ran off
And left me here

I can't talk to you the way you want me to
Can't crack jokes like I used to
Slipping, slipping away
Trying, trying to stay
You can't see me failing the test
Hiding from the madness
Pieces of a broken picture frame

Time won't wait for anyone
So why did I expect it to wait for me?
I guess that's what I'm asking
Why are we deaf to the sad stories
We don't want to hear?
That's what I'm asking you

I can't talk to you the way you want me to
Can't crack jokes like I used to
Slipping, slipping away
Begging, begging to stay
You can't see me falling away
Hiding from the bad days
Pieces of a broken picture frame

I can't talk to you the way you want me to
Pieces of a broken picture frame
Too shattered for tape