Song from my Songs and Poems book, recorded
Matthew P. Haubert
Verse 1
Keep the curtains shut, I’m not coming out today,
Light feels like questions I don’t have the strength to face.
Every sound outside my room just echoes what I fear,
People living like it’s easy, like the end is not near.
Hide away today from the world that causes me so much pain,
Every smile feels borrowed, every breath feels staged.
I rehearse conversations I’ll never let be heard,
Talk to my walls instead of people, they don’t twist my words in strange ways.
Pre-Chorus
The clock keeps moving but I stay,
Frozen in the mess I made.
Chorus
So keep the curtains shut, let the day pass by,
I don’t want your sunshine, I don’t want your coverup.
If I disappear for a little while, it’s just my way,
Of cauterizing my past mistakes,
Hiding from the world that caused me so much pain.
Verse 2
Keep the doors locked, hide away,
Clothes on the floor like we don’t care what they say.
We’ll waste the whole afternoon in a sheet maze
Skin touching skin, forgetting who we’re supposed to be.
We can watch dumb movies for noise,
Your leg over mine, making simple things a choice.
Write a melody half-dressed, your name in the lines,
Or a script where the ending is losing track of time.
Let’s forget the world and the weight it bears on me,
All the headlines screaming, all the broken things.
Instead we can fuck and kiss forge everlasting memories
Feel each others breathe, feel alive in this sweaty bed.
It doesn’t matter what we do,
We’re locked in here together—
Nothing else exists right now.
Pre-Chorus 2
No plans, no future, no disguise,
You and me and passing time.
Chorus
So keep the curtains shut, let the day pass by,
I don’t want your sunshine, I don’t want your coverup.
If I disappear for a little while, it’s just my way,
Of cauterizing my past mistakes,
Hiding from the world that caused me so much pain.
Bridge
Maybe tomorrow I’ll let the daylight in,
Crack the window just enough to feel my skin.
Maybe I’ll remember how it feels to try,
But tonight I just need somewhere
Where Im not judged and I can justify.
Break
No speeches, no saving, no hand to pull me through,
Just quiet, just breathing, just something real with you.
Final Chorus
So keep the curtains shut, let the darkness stay,
It understands me better than the words the outside says
If I disappear for a little while, don’t call my name,
I’m finding peace in the silence,
Hiding behind my curtains, locked behind walls.
Outro
Doors locked.
Curtains closed.
We’re okay today.
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