[Verse 1] Cold air leaking through the frame The room won’t warm The days come pre-broken I wear them wrong I wake up spent The good hours collect their debt The clock runs hard I stand still in it [Pre-Chorus] So I leave the light on And answer no one Keep your name On the safe side of my mouth [Chorus] Come close But don’t come in There’s too much breaking here I want your hand Not your ruin You deserve a lighter life I want you here But not if it costs you [Verse 2] I ache for company And hide from it The lonelier I get The less I want seen I learned love as collateral Learned to fear the damage Every soft thing in me Comes with a warning [Pre-Chorus] So I swallow the ask Before it becomes sound So I keep the wound mine I call distance mercy [Chorus] Come close But don’t come in There’s too much breaking here I want your hand Not your ruin You deserve a lighter life I want you here But not if it costs you [Bridge] I have spent so long bracing Tenderness feels like impact Every time I picture us I picture the damage There is so much wanting Under all this caution I am already late To a life I never entered I can survive like this I just can’t call it living [Final Chorus] Come close But don’t come in There’s too much damage here I want to be held Without being carried You don’t deserve this kind of dark I want you here But not if it costs you
