[Verse 1] I wake up with my chest heavy. I don't open my eyes all the way. I just slide my palm across the mattress. I grab the cold metal of the phone. Press the side button. The lock screen is empty. You haven't texted. [Pre-Chorus] We both know how this ends. If you type a word, everything breaks. If I send a text, it makes it worse. So we just sit on opposite sides of the silence. Waiting for a miracle that isn't coming. [Chorus 1] I know you haven't forgotten. I haven't either. The feelings didn't change. The circumstances did. So we stay quiet on purpose. While I stare at the chat log. Praying you break the rule first. [Hook] Choosing to stay away. Choosing to let it burn. Waiting for a day That’s never going to return. [Verse 2] My chest aches like a bruise that won't heal. I bite the inside of my lip until it bleeds. Just to feel something other than this emptiness. You are alive out there. And I am dying slowly in the exact same city. [Chorus 2] The love didn't fade away. It just has nowhere to go now. Trapped behind the rules we made. Every day looks the same. I stare at the blank chat window. Begging you to break the silence. Knowing you won't. [Bridge] It takes everything in me not to scream. My throat is raw from swallowing the words I can't send. If I called you right now, I'd break into pieces. If I stay quiet, I break anyway. There is no version of this where I survive clean. [Outro] We broke ourselves. We kept the rule. We watched it die.
