A heavy heart and broken smile is all I have to offer My weary eyes and sensitive ears hide from the truth The sweet taste of fear, the putrid scent of peace The soft touch of hostility, the scandalous sound of grace My body fails, my head hangs, my tears fall But this feels much better than stinging words of affirmation Than piercing mercy Than murderous love that asphyxiates my cold, bruised, torn heart with no sense of satisfaction
A heavy heart and broken smile is all I have to offer My weary eyes and sensitive ears hide from the truth But you embrace me and tell me that I have nothing to fear because you will bring me peace of mind You refuse my hostility and instead return my tormenting, slanderous words with this foreign concept of grace You help me up, you lift my chin, you wipe my tears And I begin to understand why people ask for the stinging words The piercing mercy The genuine love that revives my cold, bruised, torn heart with no sense of satisfaction