# **The Space Beside Me** **Verse 1** I still leave the hallway light on, Just in case you come in, And I keep your side of the bed Warm under the sheets. Two cups still sit on the table, Though the second one gets cold, Old habits look like love songs When you’re scared to let go. **Pre-Chorus** Every room still knows your name, I just don’t say it out loud, I hear you in the quiet After the house settles down. **Chorus** Stay with me In the space beside me, Stay with me In the words I never say. I’m still holding What we were before it broke, You don’t have to be here To stay with me. **Verse 2** I still take the long way home, Past the places that we knew, Every window throws a shadow That looks like you for a beat. And I smile at old stories That nobody else recalls, Then the laughter falls to silence At the empty walls. **Pre-Chorus** A heart can keep on beating While it’s breaking all the same, And love can go to silence Without ever going away. **Chorus** Stay with me In the space beside me, Stay with me In the words I never say. I’m still holding What we were before it broke, You don’t have to be here To stay with me. **Bridge** Maybe love is just a doorway That we never really close, Maybe leaving isn’t leaving If one heart won’t let you go. And maybe I’m not waiting— Maybe waiting’s all I’ve known, Because the cruelest kind of missing Is pretending you’re not alone. **Final Chorus** Stay with me In the space beside me, In the silence where your voice still calls my name. Stay with me Every morning, same old damage, I still love you like I can’t be saved. I’m still holding What we were before it broke, You don’t have to be here— You’re everywhere to me. **Outro** I still leave the hallway light on, Though I know you know the way, Some nights I call it loving. Some nights I call it pain.
