[VERSE 1]
you answer when the day goes quiet
like I only exist after noise
somewhere between your distractions
and whatever else you avoid
i learn your patterns in pieces
like they’re something I should know
when you’re here I’m in it briefly
when you’re gone I never show
there’s a space I seem to live in
that only opens late at night
not enough to ever matter
not enough to feel like right
[PRE-CHORUS]
and I tell myself it’s normal
how people get through life
but I don’t think I was meant to feel
like a pause inside your time
[CHORUS]
you put me down for later
like I’m something you can leave
like I’ll still be exactly here
whenever you decide to breathe
and I don’t know what’s worse
that you don’t even see
or that I’ve started learning
how little I can be
you put me down for later
and I stay where I’m placed
like I only ever matter
when nothing else takes space
[VERSE 2]
you talk like we have something
but it never fully lands
half replies and half attention
slipping through my hands
i stop myself from asking
if I’m anything at all
because I already know the answer
is quieter than the call
and I hate how I adjust to it
like I’m learning how to wait
like being almost chosen
is just another state
[PRE-CHORUS]
maybe I should stop expecting
what you never said you’d give
but I didn’t think I’d learn
to feel like this and still live
[CHORUS]
you put me down for later
like I’m something you can pause
like I’ll still be here unchanged
when you remember what I was
and I don’t know what’s worse
that it never crosses your mind
or that I’ve started building
my whole life around your time
you put me down for later
like I won’t notice the delay
like I don’t feel the difference
in the way you drift away
[BRIDGE]
it’s not a fight
it’s not a fall
it’s just the way I’m not included
in your life at all
not erased
not chosen
just left between
like something you keep meaning to fix
but never mean
and I wonder when I started
calling this enough
when waiting became normal
when wanting got shut up
[FINAL CHORUS]
you put me down for later
and I pretend I understand
like I’m patient not forgotten
like it’s part of your plan
but I feel it in the silence
in the way you never stay
I’m not where you return to
I’m where you leave things to fade
and I don’t even say it
because what would that change
you’d just move me to tomorrow
in the same familiar way
you put me down for later
and I stay there anyway
[OUTRO]
not forgotten
just delayed
just not today
Rin
