Lyric

Friday slips my grip again

I point toward home, then choose the longer street

A small sign keeps its distance

Like it’s saving me a seat

Door chime, watered ice, cheap perfume

Talk stacked high above the smoke

I came to borrow somebody’s volume

To drown the week I couldn’t hold

You’re behind the counter learning the dance

Hands too quick, smile a beat late

You miss the cue, then fix it wrong, then try again

Like forward is your only way

You’re not from my chapter

But your posture drags me back

To the version of me

Who tried without a map

Closekeep, closekeep

Close enough to let me breathe

Closekeep, closekeep

A rule I won’t defeat

I won’t reach, I won’t take

I won’t turn this into heat

Closekeep, closekeep

Everything stays unsaid

You rinse the glasses like they’re stories

Counting foam, counting seconds, counting doubt

You ask the regulars how their week survived

Then swallow your own words back down

Same town — names travel fast

Corners talk, even when we don’t

I wear a ring like a locked door

And I don’t test what I can’t close

Age is a distance I don’t get to shrink

And I won’t make it your problem

So I keep my voice polite

And my hunger hidden

Closekeep, closekeep

Close enough to let me breathe

Closekeep, closekeep

A rule I won’t defeat

I won’t reach, I won’t take

I won’t turn this into heat

Closekeep, closekeep

Everything stays unsaid

If you ever meet my eyes for real

I’ll look away first — that’s my deal

Not kindness, just control

I want you growing

I want you safe

Even if I stay a stranger in the room

Closekeep, closekeep

Close enough to let me breathe

Closekeep, closekeep

A rule I won’t defeat

No confession, no scene

Just a habit I can trust

Closekeep, closekeep

I leave with my hands clean

Door chime fades, street air plain

Next Friday, I’ll take the longer street

And let that small place keep me