Running Didn’t Save Us

[Verse 1] [low vocal register] You go quiet like a curtain You go cold, call it "space" Every question hits the ceiling Then it falls back in my face You say "I'm fine" while you’re flinching Change the subject, change your tone But every dodge is just a distance Every silence builds a wall at home [Pre-Chorus] I feel the fault lines under our floor Cracks in the cups, in the drawers We keep pretending we’re not at war But we’re bleeding from a thousand little storms [Chorus] Running didn’t save us Running just erased us Sooner, further, between and beneath All the hurt we never let breathe Running didn’t save us Talking like adults did Holding on to grudges never guarded what you love I was the one who stayed, who stayed when things got rough [Verse 2] [female vocals] Remember winter on the mattress No heat, just your shaking hands I wrapped you up in all the blankets Said, "I got you, I understand" Does that not matter now to you, huh When you’re throwing every word like a knife You act like armor made you safer But I was the shield in your life [Pre-Chorus] We keep confusing pride with power Stone-cold faces, wasted hours Deflection is fear dressed up as control Facing that fear is how we get whole [Chorus] [Bridge] [male + female vocals, call and response] You: Avoiding isn’t solving, it’s a slow leak in the soul Her: Every "nothing’s wrong" just takes a little more control You: We’re trench-deep, back to back, same team in this war Her: If we drop the guns, we might find what we’re fighting for Together: Talk it out, even when our voices shake Let the truth hit, let the old walls break Running never saved us, it just left us lost Fear of the fall was never worth this cost [Chorus]