Lyric

I turned the phone

Face down at night

Let the room breathe

Without blue light

I stopped rehearsing

What I would say

If your name came back

Through the doorway

The floor stayed quiet

The lock stayed still

No late confession

No change of will

I did not break

The habit clean

I only stopped

Watching the screen

They call it moving

When you do not reach

But silence can keep

What the hands release

I was not free

I was not through

I only learned

Not to wait for you

I stopped waiting

But the want stayed

Low in the room

Where your shadow laid

The night got quiet

But it did not feel free

Nothing came back

But it stayed with me

I stopped waiting

But the ache knew

Every small place

I had left for you

No call returned

No answer made

Only the shape

Of what never came

I do not listen

For tires outside

Do not leave space

On the passenger side

I do not measure

The hours you miss

Do not turn hope

Into evidence

But sometimes morning

Finds me too still

Like some old part

Is listening still

Not for your footsteps

Not for your face

For the care I imagined

Taking your place

I thought the ending

Would empty the room

But waiting had roots

That stayed when you moved

I was not holding

The door anymore

I was holding

What I waited for

I stopped waiting

But the want stayed

Low in the room

Where your shadow laid

The night got quiet

But it did not feel free

Nothing came back

But it stayed with me

I stopped waiting

But the ache knew

Every small place

I had left for you

No call returned

No answer made

Only the shape

Of what never came

Maybe I waited

For more than a sign

Maybe I waited

To be kept in mind

Maybe I waited

For you to name

What I was too tired

To ask you to claim

Maybe the wanting

Was never just you

It was the proof

I had mattered too

And when I let go

Of the waiting part

The proof stayed missing

Inside my heart

I stopped waiting

But the want stayed

Low in the room

Where your shadow laid

The night got quiet

But it did not feel free

Nothing came back

But it stayed with me

After I stopped waiting

The want stayed awake

Breathing in places

I thought it would break

No call returned

No answer made

Only the shape

Of what never came

I do not wait

By the phone anymore

But some part of me

Still knows the door