Lyric

I kept a place

For what you owed

Beside the door

Where nothing showed

I waited quiet

I kept your name

But no truth entered

No apology came

The table held

Two empty hands

One glass of water

One careful man

You changed the subject

Soft and clean

Like there was nothing

Left between

I let the moment

Pass through the room

But it kept breathing

Under the tune

You called it over

I called it weight

You left it open

And walked away

I did not need

A perfect phrase

I needed you

To name the place

Where you had cut me

Without a blade

I kept the proof

No apology came

Time did not make

The picture kind

It only taught me

Where not to look twice

I do not call you

I do not burn

I only notice

What I had to learn

A quiet person

Can still keep score

A closed hand still

Remembers the door

I trust more slowly

Than I did then

I read the silence

Before the end

I did not need

A promise made

I needed you

To name the shape

I needed weight

Put back on truth

Not left for me

To carry for you

I kept the door

Unlocked for blame

Kept one small light

Beside your name

I did not beg

I did not say

But I stayed near

No apology came

Not a letter

Not a call

Not a clean look

At it all

Not the courage

Not the shame

Just the old room

And your name

Maybe forgiveness

Needed a floor

Something to stand on

Something restored

Maybe the wound

Was not the part

That made me colder

Around the heart

Maybe the silence

Was what stayed

Not what you did

But what you evaded

I learned to carry

Proof in my chest

When no one named it

I never could rest

I did not need

A perfect phrase

I needed you

To name the place

Where you had cut me

Without a blade

I kept the proof

No apology came

The table is clear

The door is the same

I do not wait

But I remember the frame