[Intro] Don't do that voice Don't sand it down If it ended ugly Let it stay on the ground [Verse 1] You start rewriting while the sentence is still in your mouth You swap the last look for a look that lets us both off I was there when the air went mean and the night walked out I was there when you said fine like fine could cut cloth Do not hand me a landing I did not earn with you Do not tuck the break under a prettier word If we burned the good month, then we burned it through I can live with the ash I cannot live with the blur [Pre-Chorus] Say the thing Don't dress the thing If it split Let it sting [Chorus] Don't soften the ending Don't make it kind We did not drift We drew a line Don't soften the ending Don't spare my name If I lost you honest Keep the loss the same [Verse 2] You want a version where the door just tired of the frame Where October packed itself and left us both polite That is a story for people who were not in the room that night I watched your jaw lock I watched my hands go useless and tight You said I want the memory, I do not want the man I said then stop using my face when you talk it back You said that is not fair I said fair already ran And the month sat between us Like a coat we could not take [Pre-Chorus] Say the thing Don't dress the thing If it split Let it sting [Chorus] Don't soften the ending Don't make it kind We did not drift We drew a line Don't soften the ending Don't spare my name If I lost you honest Keep the loss the same [Verse 3] I would rather be the villain in a sentence that is true Than the gentle almost in a tale you tell for heat You do not get to keep the orchard and erase the bruise You do not get my mouth And then file down the teeth If you walk it back tomorrow for a quieter crowd I will not stand there nodding like the fight was weather I will not let you warm a thing we both said out loud When the warm was the problem And we knew it together [Bridge] Leave the last word ugly Leave the last look wrong Leave the car door slamming Leave the silence long I can love a hard exit I cannot love a lie If October had a last page Do not teach it how to hide [Breakdown] No fade No gentle No almost No kind Say it Say it We ended On time [Chorus] Don't soften the ending Don't make it kind We did not drift We drew a line Don't soften the ending Don't spare my name If I lost you honest Keep the loss the same [Final Chorus] Don't soften the ending Don't wrap it in the month I want the real last minute I want the real last punch Don't soften the ending If you tell it, tell the break I can take the cold truth I will not take the fake [Outro] Door shut Story open You reach for warm I shake my head Don't Soften The ending
