[Verse 1]
Clock on the wall
Pulls you away from me
Red numbers fall
Like they’re bleeding quietly
Your shadow moves
Down the hallway
Out of reach
I bite my tongue
Every second
Every beat
[Chorus]
Time keeps slipping past my fingers
While your perfume on my shirt still lingers
I just wanna hold you
Hold you
Before the night runs through
I just wanna kiss you in this silence
Break this gentle
Aching quiet
But the words stay frozen at my lips
As the minutes steal our chance to exist
[Verse 2]
You laugh too soft
Like you’re scared of waking dreams
Your eyes drift off
Somewhere I can’t really see
I trace your hand
But I stop before you know
I practice love
In the space of letting go
[Chorus]
Time keeps slipping past my fingers
While your perfume on my shirt still lingers
I just wanna hold you
Hold you
Before the night runs through
I just wanna kiss you in this silence
Break this gentle
Aching quiet
But the words stay frozen at my lips
As the minutes steal our chance to exist
[Bridge]
If I said it now
Would it pull you closer
Or push you out
Into some colder world
So I count the breaths
Between your every blink
Hoping you can hear
All the things I never speak (yeah)
[Chorus]
Time keeps slipping past my fingers
While your perfume on my shirt still lingers
I just wanna hold you
Hold you
Before the night runs through
I just wanna kiss you in this silence
Cancel every cruel distance
But the words stay frozen at my lips
As the minutes steal our chance to exist