[Verse 1]
On the outside, you’re alive
On the inside, you are crawling
A lifetime of planning
Can be cancelled in a moment
Now my home is breaking
Ground is crumbling underneath
Can’t carry on this way

[Pre-Chorus]
I release you
And call this love
Cannot fix my quiet one

[Chorus]
I know you don’t really mean it
I know you don’t really mean it

[Verse 2]
I have a hammer and a nail
For an ocean of despair
I am useless here
And it feels so unfair
Wondering what I was missing
Was I writing you in?
Were you my invention?
[Pre-Chorus]
I release you
And call this love
I cannot fix my quiet one

[Chorus]
I know you don’t really mean it
I know you don’t really mean it

[Bridge]
Secrets will kill us
We’re dying in the dark
My love can let you go
It wasn’t made to hold you down
It wasn’t made to hold you down

[Outro]
I release you, I call this love
I release you, and I call this love
I know you don’t really mean it (Don't really mean it)
I know you don't
I know you don’t really mean it (Don't really mean it)
I know you don't