[Verse 1] I feel her at the crosswalk just before the rain. A breath behind my shoulder, then nothing with a name. The pharmacy is shuttered. The glass is black and wide. It catches my reflection, but something moves beside. I turn before I’m ready. The traffic shifts its face. No one at the corner. Just water in her place. I walk a little faster. She never has to run. The closer I get to honest, the closer she becomes. [Pre-Chorus] No hand. No voice. No proof I can reveal. Just footsteps under footsteps and a body that believes. [Chorus] No one saw. No one saw. She’s two steps back when the streetlights come on. No one knows. No one moves. Every time I lie, she moves. I say, “I’m fine.” She crosses the road. I wear the smile. She follows close. No one sees me disappear. No one sees me go. I keep the name they recognize. I lose the one I used to know. [Verse 2] She follows through the station, past the cameras and gates. The screens keep changing numbers. The speakers lose my name. They catch the coat I’m wearing. They catch the falling rain. But every frame is missing the space beside my shape. The platform lights keep flickering, hard and white and thin. My skin knows she is closer before she enters in. I hold the door for someone. I smile and step aside. I hear her stop behind me. I swallow my reply. [Pre-Chorus 2] No chase. No threat. No reason left to run. Just something I abandoned coming back to what I’ve done. [Chorus] No one saw. No one saw. She’s two steps back when the streetlights come on. No one knows. No one moves. Every time I lie, she moves. I say, “I’m fine.” She crosses the road. I wear the smile. She follows close. No one sees me disappear. No one sees me go. I keep the name they recognize. I lose the one I used to know. [Bridge — half-time] Underneath the overpass, the city loses sound. The billboards stop pretending. The rain comes straight down. I wait for something ugly. I wait for something wrong. A reason I can point to. A face that doesn’t belong. She steps into the streetlight. She doesn’t look away. I search her for a warning. She searches me the same. The air goes thin between us. My mouth forgets the lie. For once, I don’t move forward. For once, she doesn’t hide. [Break — near whisper] I look for something different. A stranger. A mistake. A face I shouldn’t recognize. But she doesn’t look like me. She looks like the part of me I taught the world to forget. [Final Chorus] No one saw. No one saw. She’s two steps back when the streetlights come on. No one knows. No one moves. Every time I lie, she moves. I stop saying, “I’m fine.” She stops at the line. For the first time in years, I look her in the eyes. No one sees me disappear. No one sees the change. They say I look better. They say I look the same. No one saw. No one saw. She doesn’t steal my name. She only comes back to take back hers. [Outro] The cameras keep recording. The city stays awake. Everybody sees me walking. Nobody sees the change.
