[Verse 1]
You call at 2am
Face lit blue by a broken screen
Same story
Different name
"I'm fine" but you start to shake
I know the script by heart
Every bruise that you turn into a joke
Eleven years in the wings
While you burn for the ones who leave
[Chorus]
I watched you fall in love with everyone but me
Held your hand through every quiet tragedy
I stitched your heart while mine tore at the seams
Eleven years of almost
Buried underneath
I watched you fall in love with everyone but me
[Verse 2]
You say I'm all you trust
But you run to ghosts that fade by dawn
I bite down on the words
Till they taste like copper on my tongue
You wear your hurt like armor
Then wonder why it cuts you deep
I'm bleeding on the floor
Invisible in your relief
[Pre-Chorus]
How do I stay
Close enough to break
Far enough you never see
What this is doing to me
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
I was the shoulder
You were the storm
You called it "forever"
When you needed someone
You say I'm your constant
Then leave me behind
Chasing the ashes
Of someone unkind
[low vocal register]
If I say I love you
Will I lose you for real
Or am I already
Losing what I never got to feel
[crescendo]
[Chorus]