I can tell you've lived by the marks on your skin
These are like the pages of a book
The lines beside your eyes let me know that you have smiled
A little more than I ever could
And I know that you can't sleep at night
For the hollow palms beneath your eyes
Tell me more than stories ever could
You are not an etched sketch These marks engraved upon your flesh
Are indeed what makes me love you
And I want to read you like a book So let me take a look
Inside your little head,
cause you don't need to be rewritten
If you could only listen, I would tell you this
You don't need to be fixed
One thing that I know,
when a heart is always closed
No one can get in,
they just get out So here I am stuck in between
Won't you hold me close and see I will heal you if you show me how
And I want to read you like a book So let me take a look
Inside your little head,
cause you don't need to be rewritten
If you could only listen, I would tell you this
You don't need to be fixed
And I wish you'd notice I would never let you go
Never let you go
And I wish I could show you it's okay to
take it slow
Read you like a book So let me take a look Inside your little head,
cause you don't need to be rewritten
Read you like a book So let me take a look Inside your little head,
cause you don't need to be rewritten
If you could only listen,
I would tell you this You don't need to be fixed