Door clicks shut, key turns slow
Her footsteps fade down the hall below
I count the cracks up on my wall
Then see the window's not locked at all
Curtain breathes, night slips in
Heart says: Run, so I listen
Bare feet hit the roof, then ground
I don't look back, I don't make a sound
Whole house sleeps, I stay awake
Guess runnin' hurts less than stayin'
If I'm grounded in that room
Then outside feels like somethin' new
I walk these streets like I'm the last
Streetlights blink like they're tired too
No cars, no voices, just my shitty past
Echoes follow what I never knew
If the world forgot how to play
Maybe it grew up the wrong way
I keep walkin' ‘til I see
A playground lookin' just like me
Gate hangs crooked, paint peeled off
Same blue swing I used to love
Chain don't move when I push it back
Like it forgot how to come back
Slide's all rust, burns my skin
Guess it aged the way I did
Seesaw split, stuck in place
One side low, guess that's my face
I sit where laughter used to live
Try to feel what it used to give
But time don't care who gets left
It takes the best and keeps the rest
I try to swing but I don't go
Just hangin' here, not high, not low
Try to slide, it cuts me deep
Guess even fun don't wanna keep me
Everything I fuckin' loved decayed
Same way I slowly faded away
I finally see what time can do
(This playground broke the same as you)
I talk to bars, I talk to air
Like maybe somethin's listenin' there
I say: Remember when we were okay?
The wind don't answer, it just plays
I kick the dirt, it kicks back
Guess even ground don't got my back
They say kids heal, kids bounce through
But no one taught me how to fuckin' do that too
I try to swing but I don't go
Just hangin' here, not high, not low
Try to slide, it cuts me deep
Guess even fun don't wanna keep me
(Don't wanna keep me)
Everything I fuckin' loved decayed
Same way I slowly faded away
I finally see what time can do
(This playground broke the same as you)
This playground like me, rusted and tired
Once full of dreams, now half on fire
No one comes, no one stays
They grow up, they walk away
(They walk away)
I didn't break overnight
I wore down slow, piece by piece
If this place still breathes somehow
Then maybe I'm still breathin' now
(I'm still breathin' now)
Sun peeks up, sky turns gray
Park looks smaller in the day
I wipe my hands, head back home
Another place I don't belong
But if anyone asks where I've been
I won't say a word, I'll just grin
Some things rot, some things flee
(That playground did the same as me)