What Do I Say?

You push me until I'm breaking
You knock me to the floor
This monster that's inside of you
I've never seen this side before

Your anger eats the best of you
I can see you're rotting to the core
How do you hide this?
How did I not see all this before?

You hit me until I'm bleeding
You break open my face
Every punch resounds inside
With the taste of all your hate

You jump up scared and startled
Afraid of your own strength
You rush to help me recover
Tell me what to say at great length

My head feels new and heavy
Confusion rattles in my brain
Every time I try to open my eye
I feel an unnatural strain

You force me to stay awake
Wash the blood out of my hair
You help me get ready for work
Only a few more hours until I'm there

I can't tell that your scared
Hell I can't even feel my face
Wandering through the next week
Feeling confused and ashamed

Everyone has a suspicion
Yeah, everyone has a clue
They all know it wasn't a coffee table
Baby, they know it was you

For the sake of our young son
I stand up for what I believe
I'm sorry but you can't stay
For Shawn's sake you better leave

And now a year later I sit at home
Absent-mindedly touching that scar
Wondering what has happened
Thinking about where you are

We are better off without you
Shawn is growing wiser everyday
So when he is old enough to ask
What the fuck am I going to say?