Verse 1

I hear the ticking in the drywall,

Little cracks behind the paint.

We kept praying it was nothing,

Calling tremors something faint.

You were tracing shapes in silence,

I was talking just to fill the air.

Every word we left unspoken

Turned to pressure we couldn’t bear.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe we were scared to name it,

Maybe we were scared to choose.

Every step around the faultline

Was another way to lose.

Chorus

We were holding on to half-light,

Calling every flicker home.

Telling ourselves the ground was steady

As it shifted under stone.

I was reaching through the fractures,

You were bracing for the fall.

Love was breaking in the faultlines

Long before we saw it all.

Verse 2

You were sleeping with your shoes on,

Ready just in case you’d run.

I was patching every corner,

Painting over what we’d done.

We kept dancing around the epicenter,

Walking circles through the dark,

Hoping distance made it safer

While the cracks ran through the heart.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe we were scared to hear it,

How the truth would sound out loud.

So we let the quiet thunder

Build a storm behind the cloud.

Chorus

We were holding on to half-light,

Calling every flicker home.

Telling ourselves the ground was steady

As it shifted under stone.

I was reaching through the fractures,

You were bracing for the fall.

Love was breaking in the faultlines

Long before we saw it all.

Verse 3

Now the ceiling lights are shaking,

Every picture slightly turned.

All the questions we kept hiding

Come back heavy, come back burned.

We’re not whispering around it anymore,

All the walls begin to ring.

Every buried word between us

Hits the ground and starts to sing.

Pre-Chorus

If we’re gonna break, then let it,

If we’re gonna stand, then try.

Either way the faultline’s moving,

Either way it’s you and I.

Chorus

Now we’re shouting through the sirens,

Let the broken pieces fly.

If the house we built is falling,

We’ll stop pretending it’s the sky.

We were never just the damage,

We’re the ones who look it in the eye.

If the faultlines have to open,

Let them open, let us rise.

Final Refrain / Outro

When the shaking finally settles,

And the dust clears from the floor,

Maybe standing in the ruins

Shows us what was worth it more.

If we walk away tomorrow,

Or we stay and draw new lines,

We will know the truth we ran from

Every time the ground designed

All our love around the faultlines.