Vandal

I took a heavy stone to the sanctuary glass

I struck a bitter match and I threw it in the grass

I have been my own worst enemy for years

Painting over all the promises with fears

I look at what I built and I see a ruined wall

I push the pillars over just to see the ceiling fall

The critics walked away, they said the boy is too far gone

Nothing but a tragedy, a shadow in the dawn

So I'm standing in the wreckage of the choices that I made

Waiting for the punishment, waiting for the blade

I thought you'd throw the canvas out

I thought you'd leave me without a doubt

But you didn't

You didn't burn my ruin to the ground

You walked into the mess and turned it around

You took the broken glass and every ugly scar

You held it to the light and showed me what they are

I thought I was a vandal in the night

But you call me a masterpiece of light

They say you cannot fix a heart that's shattered on the floor

They say you leave the broken things behind the cellar door

But you are not an amateur, you're the maker of the skies

You look at all my jagged edges with an artist's eyes

You took the heavy graffiti and you traded it for grace

And you saw the perfect picture hiding right inside my face

I thought you'd throw the canvas out

I thought you'd leave me without a doubt

But you didn't

You didn't burn my ruin to the ground

You walked into the mess and turned it around

You took the broken glass and every ugly scar

You held it to the light and showed me what they are

I thought I was a vandal in the night

But you call me a masterpiece of light

Every mistake, framed in gold

Every heartbreak, framed in gold

All of the shame, washed away

You didn't leave, You chose to stay

Speak it

You didn't burn my ruin to the ground

You walked into the mess and turned it around

You took the broken glass and every ugly scar

You held it to the light and showed me what they are