歌詞

The bell rang

But I didn't move

Lockers closing one by one

Your voice still in the hall

Everyone's talking 'bout tomorrow

I'm staring at the wall

I folded all the words I meant

And hid them in my sleeve

I told myself I chose this end

But I don't really believe

You said it's just the way it goes

Like it was easy to accept

But some goodbyes don't feel like ends

They feel like something left

I stayed after the bell

Watching you walk away

I memorized the shape of your back

Like I'd need it someday

I stayed after the bell

While the world moved on

You didn't know I was almost yours

But I loved you all along

Photographs inside a book

I never planned to read

Every laugh, every almost touch

Still follows me

You talked about the future like

I wasn't in the frame

I smiled like I was fine with that

But nothing felt the same

If I said it out loud

Would you have stayed a while?

Would it hurt the same way

Just with a different smile?

I stayed after the bell

Crossing no lines at all

I let you graduate from my life

While I stayed in the fall

I stayed after the bell

Holding what I never gave

You'll never know how close I came

Or how long I stayed

Spring keeps going, so they say

But I'm still here somehow

The bells stopped ringing long ago

I hear it now

Stayed after the bell