Lyric

I turned the phone face down

Like that was distance

Left it beside the sink

While the room kept breathing

One light under the glass

Still knew my name

One small sound in the dark

Pulled the night back open

I was not hiding

I was just unavailable

I was not gone

I was only trying

To stay inside my own head

Something always reaches me

Through the coat

Through the wall

Through the hour I kept clean

I can mute the sound

I can lower the light

But life keeps tapping

From the other side

A payment reminder

Waited like a sentence

A message from work

Had no question mark

My mother called once

Then left no words

Which somehow felt louder

Than anything written

I stood in the hallway

With my jacket half on

Too tired to leave

Too awake to stay home

I wanted one hour

With no one needing proof

No reply due

No balance due

No version of me due

Something always reaches me

Through the lock

Through the floor

Through the quiet I had planned

I can turn away

I can close my eyes

But life keeps flashing

In the corner of the night

I used to think escape

Would look bigger than this

A train

A new city

A door that shuts correctly

But tonight

It looked like leaving

One small screen

Alone on the table

And even then

I kept checking

The reflection

In the dark glass

Not urgent

Still heavy

Not loud

Still there

Not a hand

On my shoulder

Still something

In the air

Notifications Found Me Anyway

Not because I mattered

Not because I was missed

Because every open loop

Had learned my shape

Because every delayed thing

Had saved my place

Because the world

Does not need to knock

When you carry the door

Something always reaches me

Through the coat

Through the wall

Through the hour I kept clean

I can mute the sound

I can lower the light

I can place my whole life

Face down for the night

But life keeps tapping

From the other side