Lyric

It didn't start like anything

Just talking past midnight

You'd lose your train of thought

I'd wait until you found it

We'd say goodnight, then somehow

Start another story

I'd sit outside my apartment

Till the dashboard lights went dark

I never called it anything

I only knew somehow

Whenever something happened

I wanted to tell you first

I thought I was taking my time

Like nothing was decided

But every road I took alone

Had your voice somewhere inside it

There wasn't any lightning

No moment I could point to

I didn't know I was choosing

I was already choosing you

I sent you little pictures

That didn't need replies

A crooked grocery cart

The moon between the power lines

When my whole day went sideways

I called before I knew

What part of it had mattered

Or what I wanted you to do

You didn't try to fix it

You let the silence stay

And somehow I felt better

Before we hung up anyway

I thought I was taking my time

Like nothing was decided

But every road I took alone

Had your voice somewhere inside it

There wasn't any lightning

No moment I could point to

I didn't know I was choosing

I was already choosing you

Then one night you weren't there

At the usual time

I drove the long way home

And missed you at every light

I sat outside my apartment

With nothing left to do

That's when I finally noticed

I'd been coming back to you

I thought I was taking my time

Like my heart hadn't decided

But every ordinary night

Had already moved around you

There wasn't any lightning

No moment I could point to

I didn't know I was choosing

I was already choosing you

No moment

No sign

Just your voice

At the end of mine

I thought I was still choosing

I was already choosing you