[Verse 1]
I keep your coat on the chair
Like you might come back for it
Half-finished words in my head
Still heavy in my mouth
Your laugh hits the hallway wall
Then disappears too fast
I watch the door move in the draft
Like it knows your name
[Pre-Chorus]
I almost said it then
Right there on your porch
My tongue stayed folded up
Like a map I couldn't read
[Chorus]
I loved you quiet
I loved you quiet
Right under my skin
(quiet, quiet)
You never knew it
You never knew it
Now it lives in me
(lives in me)
[Verse 2]
I found your note in my drawer
Bent at the corner now
Three words you wrote by accident
That I read all year
You stood there in the rain
Shaking off your sleeves
I had a whole wildfire
Locked behind my teeth
[Pre-Chorus]
I almost said it then
Right there on your porch
My heart was standing up
My mouth was on the floor
[Chorus]
I loved you quiet
I loved you quiet
Right under my skin
(quiet, quiet)
You never knew it
You never knew it
Now it lives in me
(lives in me)
[Bridge]
If I had one clean minute
I’d give it to your hands
Tell you every small, slow truth
I kept on holding back
But the train came and went
And the season changed its clothes
Now I wear your ghost in daylight
Like a shirt nobody knows
[Chorus]
I loved you quiet
I loved you quiet
Right under my skin
(quiet, quiet)
You never knew it
You never knew it
Now it lives in me
(lives in me)