Lyric

It was only familiar

It was never kind

I kept calling it shelter

Because I knew where to hide

Same cup on the counter

Same light in the hall

Same quiet after dinner

Same place against the wall

I knew the floor by memory

The loose board near the bed

I knew the words to answer with

Before you turned your head

But safe is not the same as soft

And still is not the same as right

I mistook the lack of leaving

For a reason to stay the night

Comfortable was a lie

I told my body every day

While it tightened in the silence

And learned not to pull away

Comfortable was a lie

But it sounded almost true

When the room knew all my habits

And my heart had no room to move

No room to move

No room to move

I stopped asking for the window

I stopped sleeping on my side

I made peace with little corners

Where I did not have to try

You never had to hold me down

I had learned to stay before

Some houses do not lock you in

They only teach you where the door is

I used to think the quiet meant

Nothing here could bruise

But pain can sound like routine

When it has nothing left to prove

There was no crash, no final scene

No plate against the wall

Just my breath getting smaller

In a life that asked for all

I do not hate the years I stayed

I do not call them wrong

But I can love a place I lived

And know I stayed too long

Comfortable was a lie

I told my body every day

Now it trembles in the morning

But it knows another way

Comfortable was a lie

And I can finally say it through

What I called a home for years

Had no room for something true

It was only familiar

It was never kind

I kept calling it shelter

Because I knew where to hide