validation.

I keep
It all in
Wait for your validation
To calm me again
Mmm yea
I keep
It all in
And wait for your validation
To calm me again

Two times
I couldn't waste it
Always said I wouldn't say shit
Spent a whole week in my basement
Thinking 'bout the love you gave me
And threw it away
Never gave you too much of me anyway
Blue texts adding up
Kept me in the gray
Pull me in
Push away
When there's nothing to say

I keep
It all in
Wait for your validation
To calm me again
You pull the strings
Of my heart
I'm a marionette
And the play never starts
Caught in the dark
Never knew
I was never a part
A part
A part
Okay

Now I lost another part of me
True colors in the dark
They were hard to see
I thought you would be kind
A wasp in a beehive
Caught in a disguise
You've always been

And it's torture
The pain and disorder
You painted a portrait
Of paradise
When I was closer
To getting my closure
I saw the vultures
I'm paralyzed

I keep
It all in
(Keep it all in)
Wait for your validation
To calm me again
(Calm me again)
You pull the strings
Of my heart
I'm a marionette
And the play never starts
Caught in the dark
Never knew
I was never a part
A part
A part
A part

I keep
It all in
And wait for your validation
To solve me within
I knew I couldn't cave in
It's your book I took a page from
And laid face down on the pavement
When it's you who could've saved me
I just need your vali-