Verse 1

Verse 1 I was a girl who lived in arms I spoke in closeness, I spoke in warmth I gave my heart in quiet ways In holding on, in soft embrace But love became a place of fear His hands would take, not hold me near He said my pain was all pretend And blamed me for the way I’d bend I learned to leave my body there And watch from somewhere in the air He called it love, I called it shame And somehow I was always blamed Pre-Chorus And I still feel it in my skin The places I have never been again Chorus I’m made of touch, I’m made of need I’m made of scars you cannot see I wanna fall into your arms tonight But I’m so scared you’ll hold me tight Then let me go, then let me break Then tell me I was your mistake So if I shake when you hold on It’s not you, it’s where I’m from I’m made of touch, I’m made of fear So please don’t disappear Verse 2 You hold me like I’m made of glass Like you see through my broken past You kiss my head, you hold me close And love me in the ways he chose not to And God, I don’t know what to do With something gentle, something true My chest is tight, my thoughts are loud I’m waiting for your voice to turn around I say sorry when I cry Sorry for the hundredth time Sorry for the way I am Sorry I don’t understand Pre-Chorus How you can touch me without control How you can love me and want my soul Chorus I’m made of touch, I’m made of need I’m made of scars you cannot see I wanna live inside your arms tonight But I’m so scared you’ll change your mind And see my cracks, and walk away And tell me I was just a phase So if I ask you, “Do you care?” It’s every ghost still living there I’m made of touch, I’m made of fear So please don’t disappear Bridge I’m the girl who needs your chest To lay my head and finally rest I’m the girl who falls apart If I don’t feel your beating heart I love in hugs, I love in skin In being close, in being in But I’m the girl who learned too young That love can turn into a gun So if I hold you, hold you tight I’m trying to survive the night I’m trying to teach my bones what’s true That safe is something I can do With you Final Chorus (bigger, emotional) I’m made of touch, I’m made of pain I’m trying to be whole again I wanna trust the way you hold me now But I don’t really know just how If I collapse inside your arms Promise you won’t see just flaws Promise you won’t get tired of me Or leave me here in memory I’m made of touch, I always was But touch was never safe because Love used to mean I’d disappear So hold me close And stay right here Stay right here.