Lyric

Your name still lives

Where my thumb can find it

Under a letter

I never open

The number is there

Like a room with light

Like a door left unlocked

On the wrong side

I could make a reason

Out of the rain

Out of some old street

We used to hate

But weather is weather

And memory is not

A rightful place

To put my hand

I know the line

I know the sound

I know the way

It used to ring

But knowing a road

Does not mean

It still leads

Where I belong

I still know the number

I still know the way

But knowing is not needing

And needing is not a place

The line still works

The life does not

Your silence has nothing

To answer for

I can miss the voice

And leave it alone

I can hold the phone

And not go home

I almost used

Your birthday wrong

Like kindness could hide

What I really wanted

I almost said

I found that song

As if a song

Could make a bridge

There are a hundred

Little excuses

Still walking circles

Around my room

But none of them

Belong to you

They are just my hands

Looking for use

I used to think

If something rang

It meant the door

Was not yet closed

But open wires

Are not the same

As being welcome

In your day

I still know the number

I still know the way

But knowing is not needing

And needing is not a place

The line still works

The life does not

Your silence has nothing

To answer for

I can miss the voice

And leave it alone

I can hold the phone

And not go home

Maybe you would answer

Maybe you would not

That is not the question

I should ask

The question is

Who gave me leave

To lay my longing

Across your night

I am not locked out

I am stepping back

From a life

That is not mine

Some mercy looks

Like doing nothing

With all the ways

I still could reach

I still know the number

I still know the way

But knowing is not needing

And needing is not a place

The line still works

The life does not

Your silence has nothing

To answer for

I can miss the voice

And leave it alone

I still know the number

But no reason to call

Your name stays there

My hands stay still

The room goes quiet

Without a ring