You cut our ropes, left the umbilical And now I carry around this weight of broken hope And I can't retrace and I've lost my hold And blame myself 'cause that is all I've ever known And your face shows doubt (When your head feels the wake of the sorrow) Swore to me that you could live without (Then the beg turns to take, turns to borrow) Help me down, I just want this out (When you bend, when you break, when you follow) So, you cut me out Then you cut our ropes, left the umbilical And now I'm lost and I can't take this path back home Send a birthday card, leave a one-way note I lied, I'm sorry, this isn't easy, I don't know And you'd ask me to "open your walls to this" But I'm scared, fingers broken And ill-prepared to let this drag out I can't make this better It fell out of my hands because I just wasn't built to hold on And I can't remember names its been too long And I can't find your face in the crowd I made a promise, said my eyes would stay shut Through something called the scope of all of this rebuilding I broke when I entered, displaced from the center I can't find my way around this My wounds healed while my fingers fixed