Lyric

Tuesday cracked open my ribs

You laughed

Said my worry was cute

We danced in the gap by the fridge

Bare feet on a stained old rug

I still see your glass on the nightstand

Half-full

Like the way you left

You said

"Love me more when I’m breaking"

Then you vanished mid-breath

Now the dark keeps asking where you went

And the dawn just shrugs instead

But your glass on the nightstand

Keeps talking in my head

Sometimes I rehearse our fights

Rewrite every word you said

Pull the hurt apart in stripes

Lay it out across my bed

Still I taste your name in the silence

Dry mouth

But the ache runs deep

You swore you were done with hiding

Yet you slipped right out of reach

All the walls keep learning how you sound

Every time I try to sleep

And your name in the silence

Cuts under every heartbeat

Neighbors keep asking about you

I smile like the truth’s too bright

Say you’re just chasing a new view

Chewed-up story I recite

Now I fold your side of the blanket

Tuck in all the air you owned

Tell my friends I’m finally past it

Then walk back to this hollow home

Every room remembers how you breathed

Every shadow feels like smoke

And your side of the blanket

Still holds the words you spoke

Years might pretend they can mend this

Stacked days in a crooked row

Some nights I can almost forget you

Till your laughter leaks through the window

Even if I tear down these tiny shrines

Change my hair

Change my name

Change my city lines

There is still that version of us

Pressed in the moment before you left

Where you almost turned around

And I almost said

"Stay"