Secret Keepers - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Give it up or go down with it

A secret’s a boat tossed on a wave

All these years you’ve been living with it

And it’s fucked you up every which way

Secret keepers are lost and found

Spare a little kindness when you meet someone

You never really know what they’re carrying around

Every day is a battle that’s never won

It’s not safe to keep it hidden

And it’s not safe to let it out

You just learn to do its bidding

As it blows you up from the inside out

Secret keepers are lost and found

Spare a little kindness when you meet someone

You never really know what they’re carrying around

Is it a live grenade or a loaded gun?

Out of sight, out of questions

With your truest friend, depression

Whispering me too true confession

No relief and no redemption

Secret keepers, we’re all the same

Looking for some kindness when we meet someone

We get years of practice camouflaging shame

But the armor we’re wearing weighs a ton

Secret keepers are lost and found

Spare a little kindness when you meet someone

You never really know what they’re carrying around