Pieces I Can't Hide

I keep it quiet when it starts
Try to hold it in my chest
But it slips between the lines
Every time I try to rest

I play it off like I'm okay
Like it's nothing I can't take
But there's something underneath
That I can't seem to escape

And I feel it in the silence
When there's nowhere left to run

There are pieces I can't hide
No matter how I try
They show up in my voice
In the way I lose my mind

Every word I don't say
Still finds a way outside
There are pieces of me breaking through
Pieces I can't hide

I see it in the way I fade
When I'm staring at the floor
Like I'm somewhere else entirely
But I don't know where anymore

And I tell myself it's fine
That it's all just in my head
But it follows me around
Every word I leave unsaid

And I feel it in the silence
Like it's pulling me apart

There are pieces I can't hide
No matter how I try
They show up in my voice
In the way I lose my mind

Every word I don't say
Still finds a way outside
There are pieces of me breaking through
Pieces I can't hide

If I let it all out now
Would it even make it right?
Or just prove that I've been carrying
Too much all this time

I can't hold it
I can't hide it

There are pieces I can't hide
No matter how I try
They show up in my voice
In the way I lose my mind

Every word I don't say
Still finds a way outside
There are pieces of me breaking through
Pieces I can't hide

Pieces I can't hide