━━━ † ━━━━━━━━━ † ━━━ ──── ◐ ──────── ◑ ──── ▓▒░ THE DOOR I NEVER LOCKED ░▒▓ [Verse 1 — Male | low, intimate] I still leave your coffee cup beside the window Like some habits never learned that you were gone There’s a jacket hanging where you left it And I swear I almost checked it For the perfume that I know has faded long I’ve been sleeping on your side without a reason Maybe mine just feels too honest when I’m there Everybody says I’ll get through this Like forgetting you is movement Like a heart can leave a room without a tear [Pre-Hook — Male | slowly building] I keep telling everyone you changed That one morning you just walked away But every time I tell that lie It sounds more like my name [HOOK — Female enters | powerful, wounded] YOU SAY I RAN, BUT WHERE WERE YOU? WHEN I WAS BREAKING IN THE NEXT ROOM? I screamed without making a sound You heard the silence and turned it down DON’T TELL THEM I JUST LET US DIE! I KEPT US BREATHING EVERY NIGHT! You only reached for me when I was almost gone So don’t rewrite What happened here Just so you can say I did you wrong [Verse 2 — Female | restrained anger] I remember learning how to read your breathing Just to know which version of you I would get I could feel a whole night changing From a sentence left unfinished So I learned to swallow every word instead You were never cruel enough to make it simple Never kind enough to make me want to stay You would pull me close when I was leaving Call that proof that you believed in Everything you wouldn’t fight for yesterday [Pre-Hook — Female | rising] I don’t hate the man I left behind I just hate how long I called him mine You needed proof That I loved you I needed room to breathe [HOOK — Female lead / Male underneath] YOU SAY I RAN, BUT WHERE WERE YOU? (I thought I gave you everything…) WHEN I WAS BREAKING IN THE NEXT ROOM? (I didn’t know you needed me…) I screamed without making a sound You heard the silence and turned it down DON’T TELL THEM I JUST LET US DIE! (I swear I thought that we were fine…) I KEPT US BREATHING EVERY NIGHT! (Then why’d you never tell me why?) You only reached for me when I was almost gone So don’t rewrite What happened here Just so you can say I did you wrong [Bridge — Male / Female | alternating, increasingly overlapping] Male: I would’ve changed if you had asked Female: I asked until I learned to stop Male: I never knew it hurt that bad Female: You knew enough to look away Male: I thought that giving you your space— Female: Was easier than showing up Male: Then why’d you leave the door unlocked? Female: Because some part of me still hoped you’d walk through it. [Silence] Male, softly: Why didn’t I? Female: That’s what finally made me leave. [FINAL HOOK — Both / Female overtakes | full instrumentation] SO SAY I RAN IF THAT HELPS YOU SLEEP! SAY I TOOK SOMETHING YOU COULDN’T KEEP! But I was standing at the edge for years Waiting for you to notice I was disappearing AND I WON’T APOLOGIZE THIS TIME! FOR SAVING WHAT WAS LEFT OF MINE! You can tell yourself I never fought for us But I know how long I held that door For someone who was never coming through [Drop — Female | almost whispered] I didn’t leave when I stopped loving you. I left when I finally understood you were comfortable watching me stay. [Outro — Male | distant, nearly spoken] The door was never locked. I just never tried the handle.
