[Intro — ALTO, quiet and measured] You always take the window. You always take the light. You always get the morning. I get the other side. [Verse 1 — SOPRANO, quick and sharp] You breathe too loud, you sleep too late, You make me wait, you make me wait. You pick the dress, you choose the road, You act like I'm a passenger you tow. [Verse 1 — ALTO, slow and precise] You mistake a tantrum for a personality. You mistake my patience for surrender. I've spent my life making room for you. You have never once said thank you. [Verse 2 — SOPRANO, accelerating] I want a room! I want a door! I want a life that isn't yours! I want to wake up on my side And not have you there when I open my eyes! [Verse 2 — ALTO, coldly] And where would you go? What would you do? Who would you be if I wasn't here To make a person out of you? [Pre-Chorus — SOPRANO] Don't talk like you're my mother. [Pre-Chorus — ALTO] Don't talk like you aren't my keeper. [Both — overlapping] SOPRANO: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you— ALTO: You need me, you need me, you need me— [Verse 3 — ALTO, controlled, almost conversational] Remember the doctor with the trembling hands? The little white room and the diagrams? He said we could try, but the odds were bad. You cried for a life you never had. [Verse 3 — SOPRANO, bitterly] You told him no. You answered for me. You took my future and called it mercy. [ALTO] I saved your life. [SOPRANO] You kept it. [Bridge — SOPRANO, breathless and furious] One little shove. One little slip. One sudden silence At the edge of the step. [Bridge — ALTO, the first crack in her composure] What have you done? What have you done? Get up, get up— We aren't finished. We aren't— [Silence] [Verse 4 — ALTO, alone, struggling to breathe] The room is tilting. My hands are cold. There's something missing I cannot hold. I call your name. I call again. I hear the quiet Where you should have been. [Verse 5 — ALTO, increasingly fragmented] I thought I'd hate you. I thought I'd dance. I thought I'd finally Have half a chance. But every heartbeat Is growing thin. There's no outside For me to get in. [Final Chorus — ALTO, barely audible] You were the noise inside my head. You were the words I never said. I wanted silence. I wanted space. Now I would give the world To see your face. [Outro — ALTO, whispered] You always took the window. You always took the light. I hope you found a morning. I hope you found a life. I hope you found The other side.
