A1 You heard the sigh before the sentence, I saw the shadow cross your face. And in the hush between us, darling, we put a story in its place. So leave a little room for maybe, leave a little room for me. The heart is quick to close a doorway before the eyes can learn to see. A2 You know the words I’ve used before you, I know the ones that made you leave. Tonight they wear old clothes around them, and we believe what we believe. So leave a little room for silence, not the kind that turns away— just enough to keep one question from becoming yesterday. B We bring every old goodbye to every new goodnight. A half-remembered hurt can make a whisper sound just right for the story we were ready to believe. But darling, stay a moment before you leave. A3 Let me be more than what you noticed, more than what you feared I meant. Some meanings move while we are talking; some arrive when words are spent. So leave a little room between us— not for distance, not for doubt. Just enough for what I meant, dear, to find its own way out. Tag Leave a little room, darling, before you call it true.
