Put your palm on the cracked wall
I’ll put mine beside it
If the whole room starts to give
We won’t let it fall quiet

I came out of the lonely part
Still carrying the room on me
Dust in the cuffs of my jacket
A little shake in both my knees
You didn’t ask for the whole story
You just stepped into the frame
Put your shoulder near my shoulder
Like hurt could learn another name

We don’t have to call it healing
We don’t have to call it strong
But if the walls are still breathing
We can breathe along

Hands around the ruins
Hold what hasn’t fallen yet
No one here is new again
No one here forgets
But shoulder close to shoulder
Breath by breath, we move
Hands around the ruins
And the ruins hold us too

There’s a split in the old plaster
Running crooked to the floor
I used to think the damage
Meant nobody lived here anymore
Now I see the marks between us
Not as proof that we are through
But as places we can gather
When the cold comes pushing through

We don’t have to make it pretty
We don’t have to make it shine
Just put your weight here with me
For a little more time

Hands around the ruins
Hold what hasn’t fallen yet
No one here is new again
No one here forgets
But shoulder close to shoulder
Breath by breath, we move
Hands around the ruins
And the ruins hold us too

Maybe this is what hope does
Not a rescue, not a crown
Just a circle getting wider
When the ceiling starts leaning down
If I shake, you don’t leave
If you break, I don’t run
We are not the way we were
But we are not undone

Hands around the ruins
Hold what hasn’t fallen yet
No one here is new again
No one here forgets
But shoulder close to shoulder
Breath by breath, we move
Hands around the ruins
And the ruins hold us too

Hands around the ruins
Palms against the grain
We don’t fix the fracture
We learn where to place the weight
If the night keeps leaning
Let it lean into truth
Hands around the ruins
And the ruins hold us too

Put your palm on the cracked wall
I’ll put mine beside it
The room is still standing
And we’re still inside it