Music: Carina Adly MacKenzie/David Charles Snyder/Leslie Powell
Producer: Carina Adly MacKenzie/Charlie Snyder/Leslie Powell/Michael Miller
My father taught me home is where the hurt is
So I built a fortress
Where I lived alone
He said ships were never meant to have a harbor
So I’ve worn this armor
I’ve fought and flown
I was raised a soldier
Put my weapons down to hold you
Is a kiss an act of war?
I just tried to keep you warm
Even though I couldn’t stay
Know you never looked away
Now I can’t look away
Would you meet me in the middle?
Could we both stop keeping score?
There’s a battle I must fight alone
It’s you I’m fighting for
If I call off the battalion
Break my walls down stone by stone
Tear down my defenses
I can build your heart a home
And if I did
Would you come home?
Together we could quiet all the noises
Drown out the voices
Play our own song
Boys becoming men under the desert sky
But something dark inside
Said it was wrong
I was raised a soldier
Put my weapons down to hold you
Is a kiss an act of war?
I just tried to keep you warm
Even though I couldn’t stay
Know you never looked away
Now I want look away
Would you meet me in the middle?
Could we both stop keeping score?
There’s a battle I must fight alone
It’s you I’m fighting for
If I call off the battalion
Break my walls down stone by stone
Tear down my defenses
I can build your heart a home
And if I did
Would you come home?
I still find my father’s shrapnel buried
Beneath my skin
But I’ve begun to heal in all the places
Your hands have been
Would you meet me in the middle?
Could we both stop keeping score?
There’s a battle I must fight alone
It’s you I’m fighting for
If I call off the battalion
Break my walls down stone by stone
Tear down my defenses
I can build your heart a home
And if I did
Would you come home?
I wish we found the words when we were 17
You were the best of me
You are
the best of me