[Intro]
I know what I did.
No — that's the thing. I don't.
I know what it did to you.
[Verse 1]
The year came back in pieces, and the worst piece wears your name
I've read my own confession and I believe every line
But I can't find the one who did it anywhere in here —
and I know that's no defense. There is no defense.
Some things don't have a sorry
Some doors only swing one way
I put my hands on the one door
that mattered
[Chorus]
You've got no reason to stay
No reason to trust me, no reason to believe
I can count your reasons to leave better than you can —
I authored every one
But stay anyway
I'm asking with nothing in my hands
Stay anyway
It isn't fair to ask you
I'm asking
[Verse 2]
Words are what betrayed us — mine can't be trusted yet
So I'm learning to speak in attendance now
Watch my hands: steady. Watch me show up, carry, build, repair
Coffee at six. The heavy end of everything. Every day it's allowed.
My body is the only testimony
that can't remember how to lie
Let it argue for me
It's all I've got that you can verify
[Chorus]
You've got no reason to stay
No reason to trust one word I say
So don't trust words — trust attendance, trust the door
I'll be on the right side of it now
Stay anyway
I'm asking on my knees with empty hands
Stay anyway
It isn't fair to ask you
God, I know — I'm asking
[Bridge]
And here's the ugliest true thing I have left:
you're the marker. The fixed point. The instrument that was never wrong.
When you're in reach, I can tell what's real by where you're standing
If you go, I'm out there with no north at all
And I know — I know — that's too much weight
to hand the one I broke
You are not my medicine. You never signed for this.
I'm just done lying, even the merciful kind:
I don't like my odds out here alone
[Outro]
So I'll be outside the door of it, however long
No case. No claim. Just present tense —
every morning, until present tense
means something again
You've got no reason
Stay anyway
Stay anyway