Balancing truths, walking on eggshells, fragile design (6)

Verse 1: Each word is a tightrope (6) (That) I'm balancing on (5) Between what is honest (5) and what is kind (4) Trapped in a story (5) That I can't rewind (5) My thoughts are like quicksand (6) pulling me down (4) Verse 2: I’m carefully treading (6) Walking on eggshells (5) Between what is real and (5) what's in my mind (4) I'm balancing truths that (5) I've left unsaid and (5) One slip could shatter (5) this fragile design (5) Chorus: If I choose my words well (6) You know I'm unarmed (5) If I choose my words well (6) Will I go unharmed (5) verse 3: No matter how I try (6) I can't escape it (5) It's in my veins and (5) in my DNA (5) Like tattoos on my face (6) That can’t be erased (5) Lost in translation (5) I'm not okay (4) Stick The day that you saw (5) Little scars, little white lies (7) The way that you traced (5) The marks in my light (5) God how much I really feared it (7) The truths that I hid (5) The dark in my light (5) Chorus: If I choose my words well (6) You know I'm unarmed (5) If I choose my words well (6) Will I go unharmed (5)