You Became My Silence

[Verse 1]
You were just a stranger
Coffee stain on a Tuesday shirt
Laughing at my throwaway line
Like it mattered
Like I mattered
A little light
In a room I kept unlit
I started staying late
Just to orbit you a bit

[Pre-Chorus]
I never said "save me"
You never said "stay"
We just shared screens
Shared smoke
Shared space
Till your name
Was the quiet
At the edge of every day

[Chorus]
You became my silence
When my head got loud
All my missing pieces
Hidden in your house
I was found in your doorway
Then lost in your doubt
You were my escape
Now you’re my absence
I can’t climb out

[Verse 2]
We talked around the landmines
Weather
Work
The tv on
You asked if I was sleeping
I lied
Said I was fine
Moved on
Your toothbrush in my bathroom
Never called this place a home
I memorized your footsteps
So I’d know when I was alone

[Pre-Chorus]
I never said "need you"
You never asked "mine?"
We just shared beds
Shared breath
Killed time
Till your ghost
Was the pattern
In the cracks across my mind

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
It’s the texts I never send
Typing bubbles
Then I kill them
It’s your jacket on my chair
Holding shape
But there’s no you in it
All the words I didn’t say
Hang heavy in this room
I gave and gave in quiet
Till I vanished
Next to you

[Chorus]