Say It Like You Mean Damage

Don't come here talking like a savior
If all you brought was gasoline

You wear your mercy like a costume
You speak in ways that cut me clean
And every word you throw lands harder
Because you smile like you don't mean a thing

You pull me close just to go colder
You leave your Mark and call it grace
And every time I start to doubt it
I see the truth all over your face

So if you came to leave me wrecked
Then don't you dare hold back tonight

Say it like you mean damage
Say it like you came to scar me
What's the point in talking softly
If you only came to harm me?

And if you want to take the last word
Then say it looking in my eyes
What's the worst that you can leave me
That I won't carry through the night?

You make the cruelest things sound easy
You make goodbye sound almost kind
But every promise that you painted
Was just another way to draw the line

I gave you more than I had left in me
You gave me less each time I bled
And now the silence in the room is louder
Than all the things we never said

So if you came to finish this
Then don't you leave it half-alive

Say it like you mean damage
Say it like you came to scar me
What's the point in talking softly
If you only came to harm me?

And if you want to take the last word
Then say it looking in my eyes
What's the worst that you can leave me
That I won't carry through the night?

I'm so tired of pretty endings
I'm so tired of polished lies
If you came to kill the feeling
Then kill it where the truth survives

No more dressing up the bullet
No more dressing up the blame
If you want to leave me burning
Then at least say my name

Say it like you mean damage
Say it like you came to scar me
What's the point in talking softly
If you only came to harm me?

And if you want to take the last word
Then say it looking in my eyes
What's the worst that you can leave me
That I won't carry through the night?

Say it like you mean damage
No mercy and no alibi
If you came to tear this open
Then don't you leave it half-alive

Don't come here talking like a savior
If all you brought was gasoline