Spare us

LET ME SPARE US

Verse 1

There’s a blue light on the ceiling,

Your coat is still by the door,

We’ve been living like two ghosts

In a house we built before.

You ask me if I’m happy,

I ask you if you’re sure,

We both know what the silence says

But neither knows the cure.

Pre-Chorus

We keep pouring water

On a fire we don’t want to name,

But every time we save the smoke,

We lose another flame.

Chorus

Let me spare us

The slow death of “maybe,”

The midnight mathematics

Of who loves who lately.

Let me spare us

The habit of pretending,

Before “forever” becomes

Something we say just to stop the ending.

Let me spare us

While there’s still something left to miss.

Verse 2

Your toothbrush leans beside mine,

Like it hasn’t heard the news,

And there’s a picture on the fridge

That neither one of us will move.

We used to make the future

Sound like somewhere we could go,

Now we measure out our distance

By the footsteps in the hall.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe we didn’t break it,

Maybe time just changed the shape,

Maybe love can be a door

You close gently, not a cage.

Chorus

Let me spare us

The slow death of “maybe,”

The midnight mathematics

Of who loves who lately.

Let me spare us

The habit of pretending,

Before “forever” becomes

Something we say just to stop the ending.

Let me spare us

While there’s still something left to miss.

Bridge

I don’t want your anger,

I don’t need to be the right one.

I’d rather be the person

You can forgive when the night comes.

So take the photograph,

I’ll take the keys,

And we’ll leave a little mercy

In the places we used to be.

Breakdown

Don’t turn this into war,

Don’t make me hate you to leave.

Some endings are just endings—

They don’t need a guilty thief.

Final Chorus

Let me spare us

The version where we’re strangers

Sitting six feet apart

And calling distance “patience.”

Let me spare us

The cruelest kind of staying,

Where we hold each other close

Just to keep the fear from waking.

Let me spare us

Before the beautiful becomes bitter.

Before I forget the way

You once made the whole room shimmer.

Outro

Leave the light on if you want to.

I won’t come back to turn it off.

Somewhere between loving you

And losing you—

I think we learned

What love was not.