Lyric

The room is blue around the phone

Your voice comes low across the line

I hear you breathe between the words

Like something sinking out of time

You ask me how the night has been

I say it moved the way it should

I keep the harder answer down

Where neither one of us looks good

You say enough to keep me there

Not enough to let me in

The words arrive without the weight

The truth stays under your skin

Your voice through the cable

Comes warm and far away

It reaches where my hands cannot

Then fades before it stays

I hold it like a lifeline

I lose it like the tide

You sound so close above me

But not close enough inside

The blue light folds across my face

I watch your name refuse to end

A little warmth, a little space

A little lie we both defend

You laugh before the silence comes

Like you can soften what it means

I learn the shape of what you hide

In every pause between

I do not ask the final thing

You do not offer more

We keep the pressure civilized

And leave it at the door

Your voice through the cable

Comes warm and far away

It reaches where my hands cannot

Then fades before it stays

I hold it like a lifeline

I lose it like the tide

You sound so close above me

But not close enough inside

The cable keeps your voice alive

But not the truth below

It carries all the tender parts

And leaves the rest to go

Maybe I hear more in the pause

Than I hear in what you say

Maybe distance has a pulse

That learns to sound this way

I put my ear against the dark

I let the current pass

I do not know if this is love

Or pressure through the glass

Your voice through the cable

Comes warm and far away

It reaches where my hands cannot

Then fades before it stays

I hold it like a lifeline

I lose it like the tide

You sound so close above me

But not close enough inside

When morning lifts the room again

Your echo stays below

A low thread in the walls of me

That will not let me go

I do not cut the line tonight

I only breathe and wait

For something true enough to cross

The weight beneath your name