Your Surgeon Is Human, Too Lyrics

I wish I'd seen the war behind your eyes

You would think it's something I would recognize

Seen the silent armies, heard their battle cries

Watched the angels lifting bodies to the skies

I'll have you know that once they nearly carried mine

But what else could I do?

And then I watched your armor slowly fall apart

Disassembled by a breaking human heart

So many times you've tried to rip it from your chest

Thinking carving out your love was for the best

I'll have you know I'll never love you any less

For what we'll never be

And nowadays

I'm just a surgeon fixing other people's lives

But I still see the blood and canon fire skies

And I pretend the bodies that I'm fixing are my own

That's why the lacerated skin's so neatly sewn

Oh, I could use a little mending of my own

But in this sterile room I'm never truly home

So we must find a greater surgeon on this earth

One who understands our hearts and what they're worth

Not just flashbacks to a vivid living hell

And not just chunks of metal sitting on a shelf

And all along, your stillness was a cry for help

But how was I to know

And how were you to know