Fragile

Avalon pairs two parallel images rather than a direct statement in "Fragile" — "every heart is a window, every word is a stone, everyone has been shattered, everyone has thrown" — implicating speaker and listener in the same breath, since everyone in the song's world has done both.

"We talk tough but underneath we all bruise and we all bleed" names the gap between outward posture and inward condition, and the chorus keeps its claim in short, matched phrases — "we are fragile, we collide, we are broken deep inside, just one answer in a world gone wrong, we are fragile but love is strong."

"All alone together, we fight the fear we feel, everyone has power to make us hurt or heal" widens the song's scope from individual pain to shared responsibility, naming a choice each person actually holds over someone else. "Tell me where's the hope if we choose to go it carelessly" turns the bridge into a genuine question rather than a rhetorical flourish, and "the safest place, our saving grace" answers that question in the fewest possible words before the final chorus repeats once more, closing the song on the same contrast it opened with: fragile, but not without an answer.