Released: November 18, 2016
Songwriter: Jessi Alexander Natalie Hemby Miranda Lambert
Producer: Eric Masse Glenn Worf Frank Liddell
[Verse 1]
I was born a bull in a china cabinet
Drawn to the delicate like it's a magnet
Perfume bottles on a mirror tray
Tempered glass on a window pane
Timeless face on a pocket watch
Time is ticking
[Chorus]
I leave it all in ruins
'Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm hard on things that matter
Hold a heart so tight it shatters
So I stay away from things that break
[Verse 2]
Can't make a man a promise
With the best of intentions
Drive two hundred miles on a rundown engine
Put a blanket underneath a hollow tree
When the wind blows hard it will fall on me
Stick around long enough and you will see
Time is ticking
[Chorus]
I leave it all in ruins
'Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm hard on things that matter
Hold a heart so tight it shatters
So I stay away from things that break
[Bridge]
Me, I don't ever wanna get too close
Or be held responsible
For all the pain that you can't see
Somebody once broke me
[Chorus]
I leave it all in ruins
'Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm hard on things that matter
Hold a heart so tight it shatters
So I stay away from things that break
I was born a bull in a china cabinet
Drawn to the delicate like it's a magnet
Perfume bottles on a mirror tray
Tempered glass on a window pane
Timeless face on a pocket watch
Time is ticking
[Chorus]
I leave it all in ruins
'Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm hard on things that matter
Hold a heart so tight it shatters
So I stay away from things that break
[Verse 2]
Can't make a man a promise
With the best of intentions
Drive two hundred miles on a rundown engine
Put a blanket underneath a hollow tree
When the wind blows hard it will fall on me
Stick around long enough and you will see
Time is ticking
[Chorus]
I leave it all in ruins
'Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm hard on things that matter
Hold a heart so tight it shatters
So I stay away from things that break
[Bridge]
Me, I don't ever wanna get too close
Or be held responsible
For all the pain that you can't see
Somebody once broke me
[Chorus]
I leave it all in ruins
'Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm hard on things that matter
Hold a heart so tight it shatters
So I stay away from things that break
more tracks from the album
The Weight of These Wings
- Vice
- Tin Man
- Good Ol’ Days
- Things That Break
- For the Birds
- Well-Rested
- Tomboy
- To Learn Her
- Bad Boy
- Six Degrees of Seperation
- Dear Old Sun
- Use My Heart
- Covered Wagon
- Keeper of the Flame
- Highway Vagabond
- Runnin’ Just in Case
- Ugly Lights
- You Wouldn’t Know Me
- We Should Be Friends
- Pink Sunglasses
- Getaway Driver
- Smoking Jacket
- Pushin’ Time
- I’ve Got Wheels
From the album
- The Weight of These Wings (2016)
Miranda Lambert popular songs
- Mama’s Broken Heart
- Tin Man
- Vice
- Little Red Wagon
- Somethin’ Bad
- Bluebird
- The House That Built Me
- Over You
- Runnin’ Just in Case
- Settling Down
- We Should Be Friends
- Gunpowder & Lead
- Tequila Does
- Highway Vagabond
- You Wouldn’t Know Me
- To Learn Her
- Pushin’ Time
- Kerosene
- Keeper of the Flame
- It All Comes Out in the Wash
- Things That Break
- Ugly Lights
- Only Prettier
- Use My Heart