[Verse 1]
Got a shoebox under my bed
Whole archive of what I never said
Folded pages with your name in red
All the almosts looping in my head
Started one in the back of the bus
You laughed once, I was scared of us
Pocketed the note when our shoulders brushed
Heart on the line, then I lost that trust
Drafts on my phone that I never hit send
Paragraphs typed, then deleted again
Every "I miss you" I tried to pretend
Was a typo, a daydream, a dead end
[Chorus]
These are love letters I never sent
Ink ran dry but the feeling never did
Every unsaid word, every almost text
Still addressed to you, yeah, still addressed to you
All these love letters I never sent
Whole life written that you never read
If silence is safer than regret
Why you living rent-free in my chest?
[Verse 2]
Senior year, you were crying by the field
I wrote "I'll hold you" on the back of a bill
Watched you run to him, thought time would heal
But the creases in the paper never did peel
Your birthday, card in a grocery aisle
Picked it up, put it back, fake smile
"Hope you're good" was the practiced style
Truth was, I wanted you all the while
I rehearsed "I love you" walking home late
Mouth said nothing, I just stared at the gate
Every day since, been a second too late
Living off the leftovers of fate
[Chorus]
These are love letters I never sent
Ink ran dry but the feeling never did
Every unsaid word, every almost text
Still addressed to you, yeah, still addressed to you
All these love letters I never sent
Whole life written that you never read
If silence is safer than regret
Why you living rent-free in my chest?
[Bridge]
Maybe in some timeline I was brave enough (yeah)
Maybe in that story you were calling my bluff
Maybe we were laughing in a beat-up truck
Singing something dumb like we never run out of luck
But in this one
It's blue lines, black pen
Your name, then a blank space
Me, then a dead end (uh)
[Chorus]
These are love letters I never sent
Ink ran dry but the feeling never did
Every unsaid word, every almost text
Still addressed to you, yeah, still addressed to you
All these love letters I never sent
Whole life written that you never read
If silence is safer than regret
Why you living rent-free in my chest?