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Home Inside The Hurt
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Home Inside the Hurt is the latest release from Walters Fall, a Canadian singer-songwriter known for songs that bleed. Rooted in alt-folk and carved with emotional precision, the track is a brutally honest dive into trauma, addiction, and the fragi
acoustic singersongwriter raw healing trauma grief altfolk canadian indie
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Small town Canadian with a love for music.
Im Walters Fallborn Darrin Waltersin rural Ontario. I write songs that bleed. Songs about grief, addiction, regret, and the quiet fight to stay human in a world that keeps trying to harden you. Ive been through itjail, relapse, losing people I couldnt save, nearly losing myself more times than I can count. Music was the rope I climbed out with. Its never been about sounding perfectits about being real. Raw lyrics. Acoustic grit. The kind of songs that crack something open in you. If youve ever felt too much, if youve carried weight that no one else could seethis music is for you. Not to fix you, but to remind you youre not alone. Through my nonprofit, Guitars for Kids Oxford, I help put instruments in the hands of young people who need a way out, just like I did. Because sometimes one chord can save a life. This isnt a career. This is survival turned into song. And Im just getting started.
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Peak #57
Peak in subgenre #20
Author
Darrin Waltaeras
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Darrin Walters
Uploaded
June 02, 2025
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MP3 11.3 MB 256 kbps 6:11
Story behind the song
I didnt write this one from the other side. I wrote it in the middle of it. Not after the healing. Not with closure in my back pocket. But right in that stretch of days where your ribs feel like cage bars, and youre trying to remember how to breathe. Home Inside the Hurt isnt about getting betterits about surviving when better feels a hundred miles away. Its about sitting in the wreckage and deciding not to run. Not this time. Because sometimes the only way through it is in it. The lyrics came from nights I didnt think Id make it to morning. From a piss-stained floor. From the weight of everything I couldnt outrun. And from the quiet realization that maybejust maybeI wasnt broken. Maybe I was just living inside a kind of pain I hadnt learned how to name yet. This ones for the people who carry things no one sees. The ones who smile with their teeth but bleed behind the grin. The ones whove turned pain into shelter because they had no choice. If thats you This song was written from the inside of the storm, so you dont feel so alone in it. We dont all heal the same way. Some of us build a home inside the hurt. And that counts too.
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[Verse 1] The mirror wont meet my eyes anymore, Just a ghost in the glass, a shadow on the floor. Whispers of memory drift like smoke through the night, Each breath weighs heavy, every heartbeat a fight. [Pre-Chorus] Theres a war still raging beneath my skin, Wearing armor from battles I could never win. Crimson on my past that refuses to fade, And Im lost in the silence my choices have made. [Chorus] I built a home inside the hurt, Where every scar's a story and every tear's a verse. Walls made of sorrow, but they keep me alive, In this sanctuary of shadows, I learn to survive. [Verse 2] Time ticks cruel, like a thief in the dark, Stealing laughter and leaving a grief-shaped mark. I chase dying daylight through these haunted halls, Every silence a siren, every echo a call. [Pre-Chorus] With the weight of tomorrow pressed into my chest, I stumble through the ruins, never finding rest. These echoes of choices still sharpen like knives, Carving truth in the silence of my fractured life. [Chorus] I built a home inside the hurt, Where every scar's a story and every tear's a verse. Walls made of sorrow, but they keep me alive, In this sanctuary of shadows, I learn to survive. [Bridge] When the weight of the world feels too much to bear, Ill find solace in the ashes, in the cold night air. With trembling hands, Ill write my truth in the dark, Each scar is a fire, each wound leaves a mark. [Chorus] I built a home inside the hurt, Where every scar's a story and every tear's a verse. Walls made of sorrow, but they keep me alive, In this sanctuary of shadows, I learn to survive. [Outro] The mirror may not meet my eyes anymore, But in this heartache, Ive found something more. In this house made of pain, I carve out my grace And with each step forward, I reclaim my place. Let the silence hold what I cant erase, In the echo of hurt, I still find my space. No longer just broken, I rise from the dirt Still standing, still breathing, at home in the hurt.
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