Between the Frames

[Intro] [Verse 1] They see my life in pictures on the wall, Straight-backed smiles, sayin’ nothin’ at all. Clean-cut moments, frozen in time, A life that looks holy if you don’t look behind. Every frame’s a version I let ’em believe, A trimmed-down truth they don’t question or read. What hangs in the light ain’t where I remain— That’s just the cover, not the pain. [Chorus] ’Cause the life I show ain’t the life I live, They see what I give, not what it took to give. Every scar, every night I prayed and broke Lives where the camera never goes. They know the picture, they know the face— But I was made in the darkness Between the frames. [Verse 2] They don’t see the hours I couldn’t sleep, The deals I made just to stand on my feet. They don’t hear the words I swallowed whole, Or the prayers that never left my bones. The hurt don’t smile, the pain don’t pose, It waits in the dark when the curtain’s closed. What bent my back, what held me in place Never fit inside the frame. [Chorus] ’Cause the life I show ain’t the life I live, They see what I give, not what it took to give. Every loss, every truth I carried alone Lives where the camera never goes. They know the picture, they know the face— But I was made in the darkness Between the frames. [Bridge] There’s a quiet distance in being known For a life that’s never been your own. When the lie gets love and the truth stays buried, You learn to stand where the dark gets carried. [Final Chorus] So h**g the photos, let ’em stand, Let ’em tell a story they understand. I don’t need the truth to be explained— I survived it all, I wore the weight. They see the shine, they miss the flame— I was made in the darkness Between the frames. [Outro]