Truth Shook First

Truth Shook First

Fork tapping twice against your plate
You tell the room you never care
Every story makes you fearless
Every silence gets a stare
I watch your thumb rub the water glass
Watch your laugh arrive too fast
You are selling danger by the minute
But your hands keep telling on the act

I'm not scared of the costume
I'm interested in the person

Truth shook first, fork against the plate
Truth shook first, right before you dropped the act
The scariest thing you did was tell the truth
Truth shook first, and I believed you
Truth shook first, and I believed you

Dessert comes, the room gets quieter
You admit you hate first dates
Say you practice every cool reply
Then forget them when somebody stays
There it is, the thing I wanted
Not the armor, not the show
Just a nervous honest sentence
From somebody brave enough to let it show

I thought danger was the part I liked
Turns out I liked the crack
The scariest thing you did was tell the truth
That fork tapping against the plate stayed with me

Truth shook first, then your shoulders fell
Truth shook first, and suddenly I knew you well
The scariest thing you did was tell the truth
Truth shook first, and that was enough

Truth Shook First

Truth Shook First