Lyric

You were laughing in the stairwell

Paint on your hands

Ink on mine

We were drawing futures in the margins

Like the clock forgot the time

If this is love

It’s always changing

New shapes under the same sky

You trace my name

Then let it waver

Half a promise

Half goodbye

If this is us

It’s always moving

Soft echo in a crowded room

Close enough to feel you breathing

Far enough to miss you soon

You were humming on the subway

Tapping patterns on my knee

Every station felt like choosing

Stay with you or set you free

If this is love

It’s colored edges

Sharp and tender at the seams

You hold my hand

Then hide the trembling

Like you’re scared of what it means

If this is us

It’s late arrivals

Running just behind the train

You look back and I look forward

Meeting halfway in the rain

You were quiet in the kitchen

Coffee cooling in your cup

Every word we didn’t say

Seemed to crowd the silence up

If this is love

It’s folded letters

Every line a held-back plea

You turn away

Then turn back toward me

Like you’re lost and finding me

If this is us

It’s almost-story

Kept between the day and dark

Two directions on one compass

Trading places in my heart

You were standing by the window

Light was slipping down your face

I could see the years behind us

And the ones we’d never chase

If this is love

It’s fading murals

Colors clinging to the wall

We step back to see the picture

Knowing we outgrew it all

If this is us

It’s quiet endings

Softly closing every door

I still feel your shadow near me

As you’re walking out once more

Maybe we were meant as seasons (Oh)

Bloom and fall

Then drift apart

Every lifetime writes us different

Same two names

Same restless hearts

I’ll remember how you held me

Like you’d never let me go

And the way you always loosened

Right before the final note

If this is love

It’s constellations

Shifting every time we meet

Lines we draw between our stories

Cross and tangle

Then retreat

If this is us

It’s distant glimmers

Fading slow

Then burning bright

I still look up out of habit

Searching for you in the night