[Cold Open – close, deliberate | piano clear, defined attack]
You didn’t leave
when you could have
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[Verse 1 – intimate, shaped phrasing | steady piano, early strings]
You stayed when the conversation thinned out
Didn’t reach for your phone or the door
And when I laughed, you kept it from fading
You held it there a second more
We sat with nothing left that needed saying
Still neither of us made a move to go
Even the quiet felt like it answered
Like we both already knew
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[Refrain – simple, intentional | low strings, subtle pulse]
You stayed
like leaving never crossed your mind
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[Verse 2 – more present, slightly heightened | piano firmer, strings lift]
You almost said what you were thinking
I saw it stop at your teeth
Then you just held my gaze instead
And let the moment sit untouched
I didn’t ask where it might’ve gone
Didn’t push it into a name
We left it exactly where it landed
And neither of us moved to change it
You leaned just close enough to notice
Not close enough to call it anything
And something in that distance kept us
Right at the edge of crossing a line
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[Refrain – fuller, still controlled]
You stayed
like leaving never crossed your mind
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[Instrumental – piano motif exposed, strings swell then pull back]
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[Bridge – grounded but elevated | piano weighted, strings expressive]
If we don’t say it, nothing shifts
If we don’t choose, nothing breaks
And nothing has to turn into something
If nothing is at stake
There’s no need to ask what this is
No need to decide what it means
It works as long as we leave it alone
Right here in between
And maybe that’s why it held together
Why nothing pulled it apart
Because we never let it turn into something
That could ask more than we gave
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[Final Refrain – softer variation | strings thin, piano leads]
You stayed
like leaving never crossed your mind
You stayed
and we never stepped past it
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[Outro – quiet, grounded | piano resolves, strings fade upward]
You didn’t leave
when you could have
And for a while
that was enough
Eilidhschy
