Don't Shut Me Out

Intro

You sit like a lighthouse, tall and soft, blond hair falling slow

Blue eyes like the ocean when I'm learning how to float

You smile and the whole room feels like a quiet home (oh)

But when the tide comes in you pull the curtains closed

Verse

I remember how you fold my jacket on the chair

How you leave your coffee warm, how you say you care

You laugh too loud in the hallway and my chest gets light

But then a storm rolls through your silence, and the room goes white

You answer with small words, like they're coins behind a door

And I stand on the other side, trying not to ask for more

You go dry and distant, like the radio turned low

I trace your name on my sleeve and try to let you know

Pre-chorus

I'm not a threat, I'm not running (no)

I'm here with both hands open (come on)

You can tell me everything, the tired and the true

Let me be the place you come back to (come back to)

Chorus

Don't shut me out, don't close that room (don't close that room)

Open up, open up, come back to me (come back to me)

I love you, I love you, you can trust me (you can trust me)

Don't shut me out, don't close that room (don't close that room)

Open up, open up, come back to me (yeah, come back to me)

I love you, I love you, you can trust me

Verse

You’re gentle with strangers, you let the sunlight in

You fix my crooked picture without making a sound

But when something's heavy you fold like cheap paper, thin

And I feel every inch of the silence spread around

Sometimes I want to shake you, sometimes I just cry

Because those quiet replies make me worry we’ll pass by

I want to be your secret and your loudest cheer

I want the quiet nights and the words you fear

Pre-chorus

I'm not leaving, I'm staying (stay, stay)

I’ll wait on any weather (I'll wait)

You can tell me the bad parts, the small and the big

I'll hold them like I hold you, I won't let them drag you in

Chorus

Don't shut me out, don't close that room (don't close that room)

Open up, open up, come back to me (come back to me)

I love you, I love you, you can trust me (trust me)

Don't shut me out, don't close that room

Open up, open up, come back to me (o-pen, o-pen)

I love you, I love you, you can trust me (yeah)

Bridge

It's okay to be small, it's okay to break (oh-oh)

Say the thing that scares you, I won't walk away (I won't)

You don't have to be brave alone, not tonight, not ever

Lean in, breathe out, let your words come tethered (come, come)

I'll sit with your silence and turn it into songs

I'll be the steady hand when everything feels wrong

Tall, blond, blue-eyed, kind — I know what you hide

But love is a room, baby, let me be inside (let me in)

Chorus

Don't shut me out, don't close that room (don't close that room)

Open up, open up, come back to me (come back to me)

I love you, I love you, you can trust me (you can trust me)

Don't shut me out, don't close that room

Open up, open