[Verse 1] I count the rooms I never stayed in Names I carried, names I traded Every photograph keeps fading Before the chemicals can save it I built a ladder out of hours Climbed until my hands were flowers At the top, the view was vacant Just a question wearing my face [Pre-Chorus] When the last light leaves the window When the dust gets every name Will the shape I made from living Look like anything but waste? [Chorus] Tell me I was here Tell me I was more than passing through If the world forgets my footsteps Let my hands still reach for you Tell me I was here Even if the answer disappears I don't need forever waiting I just need one honest year [Verse 2] I kept receipts for every sacrifice Pinned them underneath the kitchen light Called it proof that I was moving But the paper never answered back My father’s watch is in the drawer now Still it ticks like it knows how All the minutes I abandoned All the doors I never walked through [Pre-Chorus] When the last voice leaves the hallway When the mirror loses shape Will the love I gave in fragments Be enough to leave a trace? [Chorus] Tell me I was here Tell me I was more than passing through If the world forgets my footsteps Let my hands still reach for you Tell me I was here Even if the answer disappears I don't need forever waiting I just need one honest year [Bridge] Maybe meaning isn't marble Maybe it is bread passed round A coat left on somebody's shoulders A chair pulled out, a safe way home Maybe every small forgiveness Outlives monuments and gold Maybe I am not a headline Maybe I am what I hold [Breakdown] I was here I was here Not a saint, not a warning Not a number in the morning I was here I was here With my mouth full of questions With my hands still reaching [Final Chorus] Tell me I was here No, I know I was here because I changed Every life that touched my living Every bruise I helped to name Tell me I was here Let the silence take the rest I will leave this world unfinished With a pulse inside my chest [Outro] If the end erases records If the dark outlasts the flame I was here beside you breathing And that was not nothing That was not nothing That was not nothing
