you thought it was me

[Intro — Female Vocal] i always thought the light was yours i never thought to ask [Verse 1 — Female Vocal] you wear the afternoon like it was made for you every room you walk in seems to lean and i stand in the corner pulling my sleeves down past my hands like staying small could keep me unseen i used to think i looked alright before i learned to count every way i came up short every way i didn't add up [Pre-Chorus — Female Vocal] i say i'm getting stronger now but i still break the same somehow [Chorus — Female Vocal] you make me feel like static a ghost beside your magic i hate the way i disappear every time that you are near and i know it isn't your fault but every word still cuts like glass just an extra in your movie scene that nobody writes about [Verse 2 — Male Vocal] (fingerpicked acoustic guitar enters) funny, i been watching you from across the room thinking how you never even try the way they all light up when you only say a word while i rehearse mine and they still come out wrong [Female Vocal] i used to think that i was fine before i stood by you now i count the ways you shine and the ways i never do [Pre-Chorus — Male Vocal] i say i'm doing better now but i still break the same somehow [Chorus — Female Vocal] you make me feel like static a ghost beside your magic i hate the way i disappear every time that you are near and i know it isn't your fault but every word still cuts like glass just an extra in your movie scene that nobody writes about [Bridge — Female Vocal] (stripped to voice and guitar) wait, you thought the light was mine i been shrinking next to you this whole time [Bridge — Male Vocal] i swear i thought it was you and i been doing the same thing too [Bridge — Male Vocal] all this time we both were hiding from a mirror neither one of us could pass two people in the same dark room each sure they were the shadow that it cast [Final Chorus — Female Vocal] (half-step lift, brushed snare and pedal steel enter) so maybe we were never static maybe nobody had the magic maybe everybody in that room was sure they'd disappear too and maybe it was never our fault we just learned too young to count turns out the one i envied most was doing the very same about [Outro — Female Vocal] (piano and two voices only, room sound, hard cut) you thought it was me i thought it was you funny how the loneliest rooms hold more than one of us in two