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Tin Man

from Circadian by Letitia VanSant

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Boltcutters, sledgehammer or a battering ram
I even tried a few quick turns from a bent up bobby pin
Tell me darling, why don’t you just let me in
Am I banging on the hollow chest of a man made of tin

There’s an emptiness inside you
You don’t even know it’s there
It was left off the blueprints
Like the crawlspace under the stair
Everybody says that you’re just the strong and silent type
No one seems to understand that your pain becomes mine

Red blisters, a few splinters, and a blackened eye
You learned how to bite your lip cause daddy said boys don’t cry
You tightened your grip and calloused up your hands
Hoping once the work was done that he’d call you a man

You’d hang around the shop sometimes at the end of a long day
But he’d just lock away his tools, he never seemed to meet your gaze
The feeling he denied you, you still are pining for
But you don’t seem to understand that his pain became yours

Ooo
Even the tin man was searching for a heart

Whenever people ask you, you’ve always said you’re fine
But you’re the last one to know that you’ve been telling a lie
Cause when you’re tossing in your sleep I hear the loneliness inside
And you don’t seem to understand that your pain becomes mine

Every morning you leave without saying goodbye
Your coffee on the countertop growing cold by my side

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from Circadian, released February 21, 2020

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Letitia VanSant Baltimore, Maryland

Letitia VanSant is a singer-songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland.

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