Lyric

You said no names

I said that was fine

You said no future

I called it time

You said keep it easy

I kept my face clean

Like nothing in me

Had started to lean

You said no questions

After midnight

No asking where

I fit in your life

I nodded slowly

Like a careful man

Like I was not losing

More than I planned

I made it sound mature

So it would not sound like fear

I made the pain look simple

So you could keep me near

I said I was fine with the terms

Like the words did not burn

I gave you the easy part

And kept the hurt

I said I was fine with the terms

Signed with a quiet mouth

You kept the open door

I kept the wanting down

I learned your limits

Like a second skin

How far to reach

How much to let in

I stopped before

The deeper sound

Turned every need

Into something toned down

I laughed too lightly

When it cut through me

Made myself safer

For you to leave

You never asked me

To disappear

I just got smaller

Each time you came near

I called it understanding

Because begging had no grace

I called it being patient

When I was losing space

I said I was fine with the terms

Like the words did not burn

I gave you the easy part

And kept the hurt

I said I was fine with the terms

Signed with a quiet mouth

You kept the open door

I kept the wanting down

No names

No plans

No questions after midnight

No asking where I stand

No holding on too tightly

No calling it a home

No asking to be chosen

No saying I felt alone

You did not force my mouth

I gave the answer clean

I called it understanding

When I meant do not leave

You named the limits

I learned the shape

You left the line there

I chose to stay

Maybe that is why

I cannot make you wrong

I agreed to the silence

Then lived inside it too long

I was never fine with the terms

But I made the sentence smooth

I let the yes leave first

And hid the harder truth

I was never fine with the terms

I just feared the cost

Of asking you for more

And finding you already gone