[Intro] Your time and mine never agreed Mine kept ticking in the ruin [Verse 1] I waited for a clean zero A day the weight would just be gone It didn’t go. It learned a quieter name And stayed in the blood like a song I count the years like half-lives Each one smaller. Each one still lit I tell the room I’m over it The room still glows where we used to sit [Chorus] It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill Not a death. A dimming I can measure I am less. I am not none The old fire still finds the weather It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill I wore the ending like a fact Then I coughed and the past came out gold Still radioactive. Still attached [Verse 2] People ask if I’m better now I say yes because yes is a door Then a song, a street, a stupid hour And I’m half of who I was before You don’t get to finish on schedule Decay don’t care about your speech I buried it. I blessed it. I left it It left a half of itself in me [Chorus] It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill Not a death. A dimming I can measure I am less. I am not none The old fire still finds the weather It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill I wore the ending like a fact Then I coughed and the past came out gold Still radioactive. Still attached [Rap] Half now, half then, don’t you call it healed Count the ticks, count the glow, count the thing I concealed Smaller dose, same poison, same name in the teeth I speak quickly so quiet don’t get underneath Not gone, just thinned, just a longer kind of stay I did the time and the time did not pay Don’t clap for the progress, don’t crown the decline It didn’t vanish. It only took its time [Breakdown] It’s quieter It isn’t dead Don’t touch it It still burns [Chorus] It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill Not a death. A dimming I can measure I am less. I am not none The old fire still finds the weather It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill I wore the ending like a fact Then I coughed and the past came out gold Still radioactive. Still attached [Outro] It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill It didn’t vanish. It only took longer to kill
