There’s a space between your silence and the words you never say
Like you’re standing right beside me but you drift another way
I keep replaying conversations that we never got to finish
Every almost turned to ashes, but the feeling never diminishes
You look at me like answers I was never meant to hold
Like curiosity is safer when it’s left alone and cold
But I know there’s something underneath the way you turn away
Something pulling at the edges of what you don’t display
(Pre-Chorus)
And I don’t know if it’s love or just the damage that we made
But I feel you in the static of every choice we never stayed
(Chorus)
Are you writing me out, or just rewriting what we were?
Every glance feels like a question you don’t let become a word
If you’re lost between the ending and the start we never chose
I’m still here in the middle of a story that won’t close
And if you come back through the wreckage, don’t pretend it’s brand new light
We don’t start from perfect pages—we start from what we survived
(Verse 2)
There’s a weight inside the waiting, like a hand around my chest
Every memory we buried still refuses to rest
And I can’t tell if you hate me or you’re just afraid to feel
But either way it cuts the same when nothing feels real
You act like you don’t notice, but I see it in your eyes
Like you’re studying the ruins of a truth you can’t deny
And I’m not asking for forgiveness, I’m just asking what remains
When you strip away the anger and the distance and the pain
(Pre-Chorus)
If there’s something left unspoken, it’s still echoing in me
Like a door that keeps on shaking but won’t open easily
(Chorus)
Are you writing me out, or just rewriting what we were?
Every glance feels like a question you don’t let become a word
If you’re lost between the ending and the start we never chose
I’m still here in the middle of a story that won’t close
And if you come back through the wreckage, don’t pretend it’s brand new light
We don’t start from perfect pages—we start from what we survived
(Bridge)
If you’re curious, I feel it too
Like a fracture pulling through
Every line we never crossed
Every piece we never lost
But I won’t force the ending
I won’t beg for what’s pretending
If we break, then let it break honest
If we return, let it be on us
(Final Chorus)
Are you writing me out, or just afraid of what it means?
To look back at the pages where we lived between the seams
If there’s still a version of us hiding under all the smoke
I’m not asking for forever—I’m just asking not to let it go
And if you come back through the wreckage, I won’t make it feel like light
We’ll rebuild from all the damage… slow and real this time
(Outro)
No clean lines, no perfect end
Just two people trying again
If you reach through the silence… I’ll be close
In the pages that don’t close
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