Lyric

Your jacket on the back of the door

Like time forgot to move

Dust turning slow in the hallway light

Nothing I can prove

I practiced lines I’ll never say

To keep my hands from shaking

Every night rewrites the truth

In the space you’re taking

I keep my hands where you left them

Like moving might make it real

Every breath getting heavier

With something I can’t reveal

If I let the silence hold me

If I let the moment near-

Don’t disappear

At the edge of the quiet, I’m still standing here

Where your shadow fades but never disappears

I don’t call, I don’t fight

Still I’m losing to the night

At the edge of the quiet, I can almost hear

Every word you never meant to leave me with

No sudden crash, no curtain call

Just air without a warning

Love doesn’t end in fire

It thins into the morning

I thought I’d know the final shape

Of letting go completely

But you remain in ordinary ways

That undo me softly

I’m not asking for forever

I’m not begging you to stay

But the echo in my chest

Doesn’t know how to fade

If I let the silence take me

If I let you come near-

Don’t disappear

At the edge of the quiet, I’m still standing here

Where your shadow fades but never disappears

I don’t call, I don’t fight

Still I’m losing to the night

At the edge of the quiet, I can almost hear

Every word you never meant to leave me with

Maybe love outlives the leaving

Maybe that’s the cost

We become the ones still breathing

What we already lost

I’m not broken, I’m just open

To the dark you made so clear

Don’t disappear

At the edge of the quiet, I’m still standing here

Not afraid of what refuses to disappear

I don’t run, I don’t hide

I let the silence decide

At the edge of the quiet, I can finally hear

Even gone, you’re somewhere near

In the air, in the night

In the last remaining light