papercuts - Jax

One more covered up tattoo

New year, same issues

New shoes scrapped my knees tryna re-tie the laces

Boy one was better than boy two

Just a little more to lose

With a short fuse he blew it and I couldn’t face it

And for every jab he took

He left a million dollar baby that much weaker

It’s not about one open scar

A broken heart

It’s not about one drop of blood

It’s all the little stuff of bottled up

What I pushed under the rug

How many times do I build it up

To watch it all fall down

It’s not about one open scar

A crashing car

It’s not about one broken heart

But a thousand paper cuts

Child

I’m rubber and he’s glue

No book, cannot get through to chapter two

I hurt my finder by turnin' them pages

It’s wild things you can’t undo

So many black and blue’s I out grew

I’m timing it all the right places

And every jab we took

Left a hundred thousand cuts we made from paper

It’s not about one open scar

A broken heart

It’s not about one drop of blood

It’s all the little stuff of bottled up

What I pushed under the rug

How many times do I build it up

To watch it all fall down

It’s not about one open scar

A crashing car

It’s not about one broken heart

But a thousand paper cuts

Paper hopes

Paper does what paper should

Paper plates, paper skin

Broken hearts make papercuts

It’s not about one open scar

A broken heart

It’s not about one drop of blood

It’s all the little stuff I bottled up

What I pushed under the rug

How many times do I build it up

To watch it all fall down

It’s not about one open scar

A crashing car

It’s not about one broken heart

But a thousand paper cuts