It's Over

It starts with a twitch, a stitch in your chest
You've been choking for months and starving for years
Of affection you lost, the catch in your throat
Squeezes your neck and it wrings out your tears

Your heart pounds in your head, drilling into your brain
Loose space in your chest starts to wrench up your lungs
The words you've wanted to say
Bite like a spike through the tip of your tongue

And it's over, it's over, it's over, it's...

The foundation is hot with saltwater and cracks
Leaving lines in your face you could trace like a map
Vision like a vignette closing blurry and black
They don't believe your love but they'll believe the collapse

Lungs paralyzed as you try to speak,
To a part of parent's pride you'll never meet
And to the right guy, you find at your feet
And you fall in love and he thinks you're sweet

And it's over, it's over, it's over, it's...

You try to act normal, like everybody is else worth his time
Like somebody else's tears are drowning you to sleep every night
When you breach the morning, trying to find the right thing to say
And if you tell a lie over and over, soon enough the truth goes away

And I'm over, you say, I'm over, you say, I'm over it

You remember the moment right before it was over
If you unwrote the last hour you could have it all back
You imagine a life: Nice bright future beholden
But you had thought of a theory you had taken as fact

That was a sign of the way you say it could've gone
The snap of a heartstring you thought was too strong
You're sustained on the stress that arrests your insides
You either die letting it out or the pain keeps you alive