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Shut In, Shut Out

from Keepsakes by Black and White Rewrite

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I wanna hear the things you've been through
I wanna hear the things that make you cry
Holding onto old reactions
New attractions make you feel alive
Well I’d open up my chest with a pair forceps
and let you look inside
And I'd gift wrap every secret
Every little fear that I've held tight
That I've been gripping with my life

Shut in, shut out.
I'd love to read behind those pretty eyes
Shut in, shut out.
The perfect little smile you hide behind

I wanna feel the cracks in pavement
How your foundation breaks away
And all the walls you've built around it
I wanna tear them down to touch the frames
I'd read from every page of the open book
That I kept locked away
But you'd rather spill the ink on anything
That mentions your mistakes
What makes you so afraid?

Shut in, shut out.
I'd love to read behind those pretty eyes
Shut in, shut out.
The perfect little smile you hide behind

In life, everything exists in black and white
What about colors? What are colors?
They're just lies of the eyes playing with your mind
and then your mind sees what your eyes see
When they're telling you what to be and then what to believe

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from Keepsakes, released May 30, 2015

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