Where you still live

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