Lyric

I learned the safest angle

For standing in your light

Not too loud in the kitchen

Not too quiet when you lied

I kept my hands open

So nothing looked like war

Left every question folded

Beside the bedroom door

You liked me when I softened

When I rounded every blade

When I made my disappointment

Look easy to misplace

Peace was not peace

It was a room I swept alone

Every sharp thing in me

Hidden under your coat

I Let the Edges Go

So you would not call me difficult

I laid my anger down

Where your feet could miss it

I became the kind of girl

Who could survive your version

Smaller in the doorway

Quiet in the hurting

I stopped saying always

I stopped saying never

I stopped asking where this ends

Or if we were together

You called it getting calmer

I called it being kind

But I was only cutting

My own shape down to size

I watched my needs turn ghostly

I watched my voice go pale

Every truth I almost told you

Learned how not to leave a trail

You never had to break me

You only had to sigh

And I would clean the damage

Before it reached your eyes

I gave away my corners

So nothing caught your sleeve

Made myself so easy

You forgot I used to leave

I wore your comfort gently

Like a dress that did not fit

Smiled through every silence

You refused to call a wound

There was a girl

Who knew the sound

Of no

Who did not make a home

From being understood halfway

There was a girl

Who could be loved

Without becoming less

I am trying to remember

How she stood inside her name

I am done making safety

From disappearing first

Done calling it devotion

When I swallow what hurts

If peace means I go missing

If love means I get thin

Then let the room grow colder

Let the old shape back in

I kept the softest pieces

But I am taking back the rest

My anger has a body

My voice has somewhere left