I Can’t Help You If You Won’t Help Yourself

I see the shadows crawl behind your eyes

A battlefield that never says goodbye.

You wear the mask but it's paper-thin

The war outside is nothing to the one within.

You laugh it off say you're fine say you're strong

But the silence screams louder than your song.

I reach out my hand but you push it away

And I'm watching you drown in the waves you've made.

How do I fight a ghost that lives in you?

How do I bleed for wounds I can't break through?

I can't help you if you won't help yourself

You're locked in a prison built out of hell.

I'm screaming your name but you won't turn around

I can't pull you up if you want to stay down.

I can't save you if you won't let me in

I'm watching you break where the healing begins.

I'd carry your weight I would shoulder your pain

But I can't help you if you won't help yourself again.

The swerved driving the broken women the walls that you raise

They only make darker your endless maze.

You think you're in control but I can see

The storm owns you more than you'll ever own peace.

I've buried brothers to the same disease

Fighting demons that no one else can see.

I'm terrified I'll bury you too

And all I'll be left with is "I tried for you."

I'd bleed the sky just to give you light

I'd break myself just to make you right.

But you keep the door bolted keep love outside

And I'm screaming I'm screaming while you hide.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself

You're burning alive in your private hell.

I'd rip through the fire I'd shatter the chains

But I can't reach you when you turn away.

If you fall I'll still be here

But I can't silence what you won't hear.

If you reach my arms are open wide

But I can't save the part of you that wants to die.

I can't help you...

If you won't help yourself.