[Verse 1] I want you to calm down, take it easy Before you do things you'll regret Before I say things never meant to be said We built this room with our own two hands Now I can't find the door, can't understand How quiet got so loud between us [Pre-Chorus] Nine years folded into silence Every word we saved for later Never came [Chorus] We're drifting, slow and certain Like smoke that won't come back Two men who knew each other's names Now strangers on the same old track I want you to calm down I'm calming down too [Verse 2] You used to know my weather by my walk Now you don't ask, and I don't talk We pass the same old ghosts and call it peace There's no fight left worth having No door left worth slamming Just this long way down, easing [Pre-Chorus] Nine years folded into silence Every word we saved for later Never came [Chorus] We're drifting, slow and certain Like smoke that won't come back Two men who knew each other's names Now strangers on the same old track I want you to calm down I'm calming down too [Bridge] (spoken/whispered, doubled) Maybe this was always the shape of it Two lines that ran close, then apart Not broken — just done [Outro] Calm down... take it easy Before we say the last thing left to say Calm down... let it go easy Watch it drift away
