Lyric

The Distance Let Me Hope

I filled your silence in

Gave every missing answer

A gentler place to live

You were never gone enough

For me to call it ending

Never close enough

To prove what I believed

I made a reason

For every late reply

Your phone must have died

Your week must have been cruel

I made you kinder

Than you had to be

Built a better version

From the things you did not do

You left me space

And I decorated it

With patience

With excuses

With a future in my head

Nobody saw the waiting

Because it looked so calm

A girl beside her window

Teaching absence how to mean love

You said you had been busy

Like it washed the month away

I said I understood

Before I knew if that was true

You liked me best from far enough

To never meet my needs

Close enough to keep me soft

Far enough to stay excused

Every gap became a hallway

I kept walking through

Every unsent word

Turned into mercy when I wanted you

I was loyal to the empty

I was faithful to the blur

I made a home inside the maybe

And called the echo yours

You did not have to leave me

You only had to stay unclear

I carried both our feelings

So you could disappear

I used to think distance

Was something lovers survived

Not something someone chooses

When closeness asks for spine

Now I can see the pattern

In the beautiful delay

You gave me just enough weather

To stop me asking where you stayed

I was not loved by waiting

I was trained by it instead

To turn your lack of answers

Into proof I had not read

You never had to tell me

That I mattered less than you

You only kept the space so wide

I wrote the lie myself into