[Verse 1] You left your sweater on my chair It still leans toward your shape I drink my coffee far too slow Like I’m stalling out the day Your name stays stuck behind my teeth I bite down just to keep it in But every quiet in this house Keeps asking where you’ve been [Pre-Chorus] I wake up reaching for a weight That isn’t in this bed Count the creases in the sheets Trace the places you once pressed [Chorus] I can’t stop looking for you In strangers’ faces on the train In the window’s crooked shadows In the echo of my name Every room I walk into Holds a version where you stay I can’t stop looking for you And you keep looking away [Verse 2] I talk to photographs at night Tell them jokes you used to hate Your half-smile frozen in the gloss Never answers Just reflects I wear your silence like a coat Too heavy for this kind of heat Still I pull it round my ribs Just to feel you when I breathe [Pre-Chorus] Friends keep saying “Let it go” Like it’s a glass that I can drop But you’re a song caught in my throat Every word just makes it stop [Chorus] I can’t stop looking for you In every corner of this town In the chairs we never moved In the routes we walked worn down Every streetlight flickers through A different way you might have stayed I can’t stop looking for you And you keep looking away [Bridge] If I’d spoken a little softer Would you have heard me any more If I’d held you a little looser Would you have slipped right through that door I fold those questions into paper Set them drifting in the sink Watch the ink blur into water Like the nights we used to drink (oh) [Chorus] I can’t stop looking for you In every ending I rewrite In the ceiling cracks above me In the ceiling cracks at night Someone’s laughing in the next room And I swear it sounds like fate I can’t stop looking for you And you keep looking away [Outro] Your sweater slipping off my chair The sun climbs up Then disappears I close my eyes to rest from you And still you’re all that I see here
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