It took me a lot of years to learn how deeply our words can hurt someone we love, even when we never intended to hurt them. We don’t always know what someone is carrying or how close they are to having all they can take. I’ve learned how important it is to see people where they actually are, instead of where I think they are.
That’s where this song comes from. Sometimes someone still loves you, but the hurt has become more than they can keep carrying. They leave quietly, and you may never know which words finally made staying too hard.
Lyrics
I've learned not to judge too fast
A heart I haven't known
You don't know what they carry
Till they're carryin' it alone
Some folks smile through hell
And hide the hurt too soon
You only hear their answer
When life gets loud in the room
Be careful what you say
Some words don't miss the heart
You might lose the only one
Who still saw light inside your dark
The one who'd carry your torch through hell
While fightin' through their own flames
Some people don't stop lovin'
They just learn to walk away
When the pain of holdin' on
Costs more than they can pay
Might've been some careless thing
You forgot you even said
You may never know the moment
That finally broke the thread
Be careful what you say
Some words don't miss the heart
You might lose the only one
Who still saw light inside your dark
The one who'd carry your torch through hell
While fightin' through their own flames
Ain't every quiet heart gone cold
Ain't every scar plain to see
Some folks are barely survivin'
Still tryin' to be kind
Some people leave real quiet
And that's the loudest kind of crash