Title: “Where You Still Live”
Verse 1
I still remember that Sunday game
You said “Steelers,” I said “no way”
We were laughing like we had time to waste
Like life wasn’t waiting to rearrange
You wore that army like it fit your bones
I wore a life I couldn’t leave alone
But somewhere in the in-between
You started feeling like home to me
Verse 2
You took that picture I still can’t stand
Said “that’s my girl,” like you had a plan
I look half mad, hair out of place
But you show it off like it’s my best face
We built those dreams from the ground up
Roses and pallets and just enough luck
Side by side in the work and heat
Somehow that felt like everything to me
Chorus
But you still live in the quiet parts of me
In every “what if” I don’t let myself see
In every road I took just a little too fast
Trying to outrun what we never had
And I know why I left, I still understand
Some things get broken before they can stand
But that don’t mean you don’t still exist
In the only place I couldn’t resist
Verse 3
There were nights you disappeared again
Some hotel room, just you and them
Cases stacked like a wall you built
To keep the world out… and drown the guilt
And I saw things I’d seen before
In a life I swore I’d shut the door
So I walked away to save myself
Even if it meant losing you to hell
Verse 4
Then you came back clean, I still recall
Ten years standing ten feet tall
You were lighter, steady, strong
Like you finally found where you belong
We got close in that careful way
Like maybe this time we’d be okay
And when you held me, the world went still
Like nothing ever could, and nothing ever will
Chorus
You still live in the quiet parts of me
In every “what if” I don’t let myself see
In every road I took just a little too fast
Trying to outrun what we never had
And I know why I left, I still understand
Some things get broken before they can stand
But that don’t mean you don’t still exist
In the only place I couldn’t resist
Bridge
I heard you stumbled, I heard her name
I knew that fire, I knew that flame
You wouldn’t hear me, you never do
When the dark gets louder than the truth
And when you came back, I saw the cost
Pieces of you already lost
I almost stayed… God, I almost tried
But some lines once drawn don’t move with time
Final Chorus
You still live in the quiet parts of me
In every prayer I don’t say out loud anymore
If you ever find your way back clean
I don’t know what we’d be… but I know I’d open that door
And I respect the silence you chose to keep
But that don’t mean you don’t still reach me
‘Cause love like yours don’t just fade away
It just finds somewhere else to stay
Outro
And I still see that picture in my mind
The one you swear you love every time
Maybe you saw something I couldn’t see
The way you always did in me
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