Lyric

You drop your keys

On the same small table

Shoes half-off

Shoulders heavy as the door

You say, “Today

Tried to eat me whole”

Your laugh is tired

Eyes already on the floor

Come sit in this quiet with me

Let the night take some of that weight

You don’t have to prove you’re strong

Not right now, not this late

You gave the world your every breath

Save the last small ones for you

I’m here in this low-lit room

Doing nothing, just holding you (Mmm)

Your name tag still

Clings to your cardigan

Ink smudged

From running through the rain

You talk in lists

Of all the things you missed

Like you’re only

As worthy as your strain

Lay your head where the dark feels kind

On my shoulder, just close your eyes

You are not the sum of deadlines

Or the emails you didn’t reply

If all you did was make it home

That’s enough, it’s already true

Let the spinning world keep spinning

It can turn without all of you (Yeah)

The kettle hums

On the tiny burner

Steam curls

Like secrets in the air

You stir your tea

Till the spoon goes quiet

Say, “What if I

Just disappear from there?”

If you fade from their long, long list

You still glow right here in this chair

Every crack in your voice tonight

Is a place I can say, “I care”

Tell me all the thoughts you swallow

Or don’t speak, I can hear them too

You don’t have to disappear

I already see straight through to you

Outside, some car

Paints the walls with passing gold

Then leaves

Like every busy plan

But on this couch

Wrapped in an old blanket

You’re softer

Than the world believes you can

You are more than the hours you’re trading

More than praise that never lands

More than all those nights of waiting

For a stranger’s kind demand

If the city never thanks you

If your phone just never rings

I’ll be here, a quiet witness

To your small, extraordinary things

So breathe like you’re not on a clock

Let tomorrow arrive when it will

If the ladder keeps on rising

You can pause halfway up that hill

In this dim, forgiving corner

You’re already enough, it’s true

You worked too hard for everyone

Let tonight work gently for you