[Verse 1] You used to finish all my sentences Now you interrupt yourself halfway through Like somebody else is pulling on the words Before they ever make it out of you You laughed with your whole body Now you keep checking every window twice You asked if I could hear the neighbors breathing From three doors over every night You said "Don't tell anybody I told you." Then you told me everything None of it belonged to this world anymore [Verse 2] I started writing down the things you'd say Thinking maybe later they'd make sense A notebook full of crooked maps Leading nowhere we had ever been Every week another bridge was burning Every month another friend gave up You stopped answering your mother's phone calls Because she was "one of them" You quit saying people's names Started calling everybody "they" Like the whole damn earth had gathered Just to watch your mind decay [Chorus] I kept waiting for you to come back Like you'd just stepped outside to smoke Like this was only one bad season Or one bad fucking joke But every conversation Took another piece of you Until I was sitting with a stranger Who still looked exactly like you [Verse 3] I watched your birthday come and go You didn't know how old you'd turned You talked for forty minutes straight About "The Great Flaming Towers of Florida State" You forgot the road to your own house Forgot the dog you used to raise Forgot the songs we'd scream together But remembered every imagined betrayal I wanted to argue I wanted to fix it I wanted one sentence That could reach wherever you had gone And there wasn't one... [Bridge] The hospital smelled like floor cleaner And burnt coffee from the waiting room You asked me if I'd wear your beanie Until they finally let you loose I said, "Yeah." I knew I was lying. Because the doctor never used the word "temporary." [Final Chorus] Nobody tells you You can lose somebody this way No funeral No flowers No casseroles No wake Just birthdays you stop celebrating Phone numbers you never erase A heartbeat A breathing body And no familiar face [Outro] Sometimes I still hear your old laugh From before the fear moved in I hope wherever your mind wandered... ...there was one afternoon Where you remembered me And you weren't scared.
