We never met, not really But somehow you knew me well You’d hear the silence in my voice Before I ever said I wasn’t well And when the night got heavy You’d sing until I smiled I never knew a stranger’s voice Could make loneliness feel mild I’d say, “Can you stay a little?” You’d say, “I’ve got ten to spare” I’d say, “Just ten more minutes” And somehow you were still there Ten minutes became an hour An hour became my favourite time I didn’t know I was falling While you were slowly changing mine You made a home out of conversation Then started putting walls around your time I kept reaching for the man who stayed While you were already saying goodbye You used to sing me out of sadness Now your songs are what I cry to You once said all you ever wanted Was to see me smiling through You were warmth when I was breaking You were there when I felt alone Funny how the one who made me feel so safe Became the reason I couldn’t go home You were everything I didn’t ask for Then everything I couldn’t keep How do you lose somebody You never even got to meet? I remember when you were drinking Your guard was finally gone You said, “I always want you happy” Like you’d known me all along Then you started counting minutes Everything had its place No more, “Stay a little longer” No more getting lost in space Your heart became a timetable Your kindness had an end And I kept calling it a phase ’Cause I couldn’t call it goodbye yet Then I finally let myself love you And that’s when you weren’t there I had waited for the moment You would meet me halfway there You used to sing me out of sadness Now your songs are what I cry to You once said all you ever wanted Was to see me smiling through You were warmth when I was breaking You were there when I felt alone Funny how the one who made me feel so safe Became the reason I couldn’t go home You were everything I didn’t ask for Then everything I couldn’t keep How do you lose somebody You never even got to meet? Then you came back warm again Just when I’d learned to let you go For a moment I saw in you The boy I used to know I wish you’d been cruel from the beginning Maybe that would’ve hurt less But you gave me so much tenderness I kept chasing what was left You didn’t break my heart in one moment You taught it how to break slowly You used to sing me out of sadness Now I hear you everywhere In every song, in every silence In the spaces where you aren’t You once said all you ever wanted Was to see me happy somehow But you became the reason I had to learn without you now And maybe that’s the cruelest part You didn’t leave me all at once You just stopped being the person I was still falling in love with Now sometimes I hear your songs And they don’t hurt like they used to We see each other sometimes And neither of us says hello Two strangers who know too much Two people who almost met Ten more minutes That’s all I ever asked for And somehow… It was always goodbye.
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