[Verse 1]
You treated love like flipping a switch,
Rush to the ending, skip every page.
You called it passion, I called it distance,
Two hearts standing on a different stage.
I’d still be waiting in the silence,
You’d already turn away.
Like closeness was just something
You needed to get through, not stay.
[Pre-Chorus]
You never stopped to learn my rhythm.
You never asked what made me smile.
I kept mistaking empty moments
For “maybe next time.”
[Chorus]
We were speaking different languages.
You were chasing finish lines.
I was looking for a moment
Where our hearts could meet in time.
You counted minutes.
I counted memories.
You hurried through the song.
I wanted someone who could hear the melody.
[Verse 2]
Then somebody touched my heart
Like he’d finally found home.
Patient with the quiet,
Never made me feel alone.
He noticed every little feeling,
Like nothing about me was small.
He never made love feel borrowed…
He made me feel worth it all.
[Pre-Chorus]
Funny how being truly seen
Changes everything you thought you knew.
[Bridge]
One treated closeness like a checklist.
One treated it like art.
One reached for the ending.
One reached for my heart.
Turns out the difference
Was never chemistry alone…
It was care.
[Final Chorus]
Now I know the difference.
It was never asking for too much.
It was asking the wrong person
To speak a language they never learned.
One left me cold,
Like winter settling in my bones.
The other brought warmth
Without ever asking me to earn it.
Now I don’t shudder
When somebody reaches for my hand.
I shake…
Because my heart finally remembers
What it feels like
To be truly seen.
[Outro]
We were never speaking
The same language.
I just kept hoping
You’d learn mine.
