[VERSE 1] It's 2am and I'm still awake Your name is sitting on my screen and somehow the room feels less empty I don't even need to talk I just like knowing you're there I've spent so long learning how to leave before anybody gets close enough to see me properly I could disappear for days and call it needing space I could say I'm fine and almost make myself believe it But then you say my name and I come back [PRE-CHORUS] And maybe that's what scares me I don't know how to hold something good without waiting for it to break I don't know how to be wanted without wondering when you'll change your mind But with you I keep forgetting to run [CHORUS] You became the place I don't have to leave the one place inside my head where I can finally breathe I don't need forever written down somewhere I just want this I just want you here And if I lose myself again if I go quiet if I pull away don't try to fix me just stay Maybe home isn't somewhere I find maybe it's someone I stop running from [VERSE 2] It's funny what becomes important A stupid joke a late night one more game before we sleep You asking where I am me asking if you're coming Little things I probably wouldn't have noticed before Now I keep them Like they're proof that this is real You once called me your oxygen I laughed when you said it But I think I understood Because somehow you became the breath between everything else [PRE-CHORUS] And I don't need you to make my life perfect I don't want perfect I want the stupid moments The laughing the cuddles the nights where neither of us has anything clever to say Just don't turn into another memory I have to learn how to live without [CHORUS] You became the place I don't have to leave the one place inside my head where I can finally breathe I don't need forever written down somewhere I just want this I just want you here And if the whole world gets too loud if everything inside me starts going wrong don't tell me it'll all be okay just stay beside me until it is Maybe home isn't somewhere I find maybe it's someone I stop running from [BRIDGE] I've asked for answers when what I really wanted was reassurance I've held onto words because I was afraid the feeling would disappear Maybe that's the part I'm learning Love isn't knowing nothing will ever hurt It's knowing I don't have to run the second that it does You don't have to promise me forever Just don't make me feel foolish for believing in tomorrow [BREAKDOWN] Because I believe you Even when I'm scared I believe you Even when my head tells me not to And if I go quiet come sit beside me You don't have to say anything Just let me remember why I stayed [FINAL CHORUS] You became the place I don't have to leave the one place inside me that still feels like me And maybe I don't need forever maybe forever is too big a word Maybe it's this night your voice your hand your name on my screen Maybe it's choosing you again and again and again If tomorrow changes everything I'll still know what was real You were the first place I didn't want to escape The first person I didn't want to lose myself inside The place I don't have to leave [OUTRO] So if I go quiet don't think I've gone I'm learning how to stay I'm still here
