[Verse 1]
Trust rarely arrives as a warning
Just coffee gone cold on the table
Your jacket left hanging beside mine
A laugh that forgets to be careful
You ask how my weekend was
Idling
You remember my sister by name
Little favors folded like napkins
Stacked in a quiet
Uneven frame
[Chorus]
The wolf never rushes
It walks the long way home
Learning every lantern
Every stone
The wolf never lunges
It circles
Soft and slow
Till the hand that feeds it thinks it knows
(oh, it thinks it knows)
[Verse 2]
You never push hard on the questions
You just leave them open
Ajar
I step through the doorway on instinct
Stop checking how heavy they are
You say
“Take your time
I’ll be waiting”
You say
“Only if you want to”
Patience painting comfort on corners
Till the room feels stitched out of you
[Chorus]
The wolf never rushes
It walks the long way home
Learning every lantern
Every stone
The wolf never lunges
It circles
Soft and slow
Till the hand that feeds it thinks it knows
(thinks it knows)
[Bridge]
By the time I notice the silence
I’m already telling you things I never tell
Every secret sounds so harmless
Falling down your private well
[Chorus]
The wolf never rushes
It knows what time will do
I build the shelter
Then hand you the view
The wolf never lunges
It waits till I lean in
And I call this hunger “harmless friend”
(oh, harmless friend)