[Intro — phone ringing]
[Click]
[AKARI — FEMALE]
What?
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Wait—don’t hang up.
[AKARI — FEMALE]
You have thirty seconds.
[Beat enters]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
I know you said
You’ve moved along
I know me calling
Is already wrong
But there’s some things
I never got to say
And maybe you’ll hate me
Either way
I know I hurt you
I know I messed up
I know saying sorry
Don’t undo much
I’m not asking you
To come back home
I just didn’t wanna
Leave it unknown
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Twenty seconds.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Damn, okay.
[Pre-Chorus]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Just this once
Let me say my piece
Then if you want
I’ll let you be
[AKARI — FEMALE]
You said that last time.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
I know.
[Chorus — ALTERNATING MALE/FEMALE]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Just this once
Don’t hang up on me
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Just this once
Say what you mean
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
I know it’s late
I know you’re done
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Then why does goodbye
Keep turning into one more call?
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Maybe I needed you to hear—
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Maybe you need to let me go.
[Beat cuts]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
…Damn.
[Verse 2]
[AKARI — FEMALE]
You keep calling
When your life gets hard
Like I’m still responsible
For your heart
I don’t hate you
I never said I did
But I’m not the girl
You remember as a kid
I have somebody
I love my life
And I’m not risking
What I have tonight
So say what you came
To say to me
Don’t confuse kindness
With possibility
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Okay, okay
I hear you loud
I know I don’t
Get a say now
Maybe I waited
Way too long
Maybe I knew
You’d already moved on
I just—
[AKARI — FEMALE]
There.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
What?
[AKARI — FEMALE]
You always do that.
Get close to the truth
Then run away from it.
[Bridge — SPOKEN PHONE CONVERSATION]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
I miss you.
[Silence]
[AKARI — FEMALE]
…I know.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
That’s it?
[AKARI — FEMALE]
What were you expecting?
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
I don’t know.
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Exactly.
[Final Chorus — ALTERNATING MALE/FEMALE]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Just this once
I wanted you to know
[AKARI — FEMALE]
And now I know
So let it go
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Maybe another life—
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Don’t.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Right.
[AKARI — FEMALE]
What we had was real
But real things end
I can forgive you
Without starting again
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
So after tonight—
[AKARI — FEMALE]
No more calls.
[Outro — music fading]
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Can I at least—
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Your thirty seconds were up
Three minutes ago.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
You were counting?
[AKARI — FEMALE]
Goodnight.
[UNKNOWN — MALE]
Akari—
[CLICK]
[Dial tone]