[Verse 1] I know how to do this now Someone sits I raise my eyes One face comes One face goes They breathe, they wait, they disappear I look, I breathe, I let go, that's all I know You haven't sat down yet And something isn't right I don't look up, I don't need to, I know that pause I know the way you wait like you already know I look your way, don't make me look up [Chorus] Don't make me look up Give me a moment, give me enough To stay right here, to stay untouched Still, whole, not knowing much I know this part, I've learned it well Look, breathe, never let it tell But if it's you, if it's really you I don't know what I'm supposed to do [Verse 2] Don't make me look up Don't make me look up I thought not feeling you meant you were gone Years went quiet, life moved on Your name stopped finding me late at night Distance made absence feel almost right And the chair moves, you sit down I see your hands before your face, older now still yours And every rule I've learned by heart falls out of place [Chorus] I look up and it's you Don't make me look up It's already too late You're sitting there with that look on your face Almost a smile, barely there And something in my face gives way Don't say anything, please just stay If you speak, I'll have to hide Inside some ordinary line Ask how you've been, say I've been fine Make all these years sound like no time [Bridge] Don't make me look up, it's already too late How easy it was to call distance absence, to call silence an ending Nothing was gone, nothing was dead It was only somewhere I couldn't reach yet Don't make me look up, it's already too late Don't say anything, you just stay And every careful thing I built quietly Starts coming apart without making a sound Nowhere to stop it, no way around I can't make it smaller, I can't make it light I can't ask how you've been and walk out alright You smile again, barely, that's all [Outro] My eyes fill first, and yours do too After all these years, it's still you Don't make me look up Don't make me look away Not a word, not one, just stay I look at you, you look at me I don't look down, I don't look away
