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Closing Up Shop

  🎻[Cover art by KimyK_Artworx]🎻 ╞════◇⚙◇════╡╞════◇⚙◇════╡   🦋💗🦋 ~ Find me at ~ 🦋💗🦋 ╞════◇⚙◇════╡╞════◇⚙◇════╡ 🐤 X / @KimyK_Artworx 🎵 suno.com/@kimykai ▶️ YouTube.com/@Kimy_K_AIMusic 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/artist/2HLspqDpsx8bL815qh7Y4A?si=5eyMYXndSj2kNa86WZY8wA ╞════◇⚙◇════╡╞════◇⚙◇════╡ “Where rust becomes gold, and silence—sings.” ╞════◇⚙◇════╡╞════◇⚙◇════╡   ╞════◇⚙◇════╡   Lyrics ╞════◇⚙◇════╡ [Intro] I love the room when it’s full of voices… I love the noise when it feels like home… So why do I keep finding reasons… To step outside and be alone… [Verse 1] Lately I’ve been pulling back before I even notice… Closing up shop while the lights are still on… Everybody’s laughing somewhere I know I wanna be in… But I keep disappearing like I already feel gone… It’s not that I don’t love them, not that I don’t miss it… Not that I don’t want the time we used to make… I can feel myself go quiet in the middle of the moment… Like some part of me is bracing before anything breaks… [Pre-Chorus] I don’t know why I lock the door… When I still want to let them in… I don’t know what I’m hiding for… When I miss where I’ve been…] [Chorus] I keep closing up shop with my heart still open… Leaving lights on in places I don’t go… I keep saying I’m fine while the distance keeps growing… Like I’m scared to stay but I don’t wanna be alone… I’m not gone, I’m just hard to reach lately… Still here underneath the quiet and the dust… If I pull away, it doesn’t mean I’m empty… Maybe I’m just trying to remember how to trust… [Verse 2] I used to jump in every call, every chat, every second… Used to give the whole room every part of me… Maybe I got tired of being open without resting… Maybe I got scared of what they’d notice if they see… And I hate that it looks like I stopped caring… When caring might be why I step away… Sometimes closeness feels heavy when my mind starts tearing… So I fold myself smaller just to make it through the day… [Bridge] I don’t want a locked door… I don’t want an empty room… I don’t want the people I love… Thinking I don’t need them too… I just need a little patience… While I figure out the way… To stop closing every window… When the sunlight tries to stay… [Final Chorus] I keep closing up shop with my heart still open… Leaving lights on in places I don’t go… I keep saying I’m fine while the distance keeps growing… Like I’m scared to stay but I don’t wanna be alone… I’m not gone, I’m just learning my own limits… Still here, even when I disappear… If I pull away, I hope you know I feel it… I’m trying to come back before I lose another year… [Outro] I’ll leave the sign turned over… Not closed, just needing time… I still love the room when it’s full of voices… I’m just learning how to stay inside… ╞════◇ ⚙ ◇════╡   Thank You For Listening ╞════◇ ⚙ ◇════╡