The Space Between the Notes

You always fill the silence Before it has a chance You turn every hesitation Into another dance But tonight I hear the spaces Between the words you choose And every little absence Is telling me the truth Don't explain Don't make it right Leave one question here tonight There's a space between the notes Where everything we never say Lives a little longer Before it fades away There's a space between our hands No promise left to hold Maybe what we couldn't say Was everything I needed to know I used to fear the quiet Like silence meant the end So I covered every fracture With another word again Now the piano leaves me breathing The saxophone lets go And somewhere underneath it There's a truth I almost know There's a space between the notes Where everything we never say Lives a little longer Before it fades away There's a space between our hands No promise left to hold Maybe what we couldn't say Was everything I needed to know Don't fill the room Not this time Let me hear what isn't there I don't need another answer Built to keep the truth away I don't need another promise Made because you're scared to say That sometimes love gets quieter Before we understand Sometimes letting go Is not the same As giving up your hand Maybe silence isn't empty Maybe endings aren't a fall Maybe we were always listening To the loudest part of all Not the words Not the promises Not the reasons we forgot But the breath before the answer And the space between the notes There's a space between the notes Where everything we couldn't save Doesn't need forgiveness Doesn't need another name There's a space between our hands And I finally let it show Maybe what we couldn't say Was everything we needed to know Leave one note unplayed Leave one word unsaid I can hear you now