[Intro] You fortified those ache-stained walls before I even finished the sentence. [Verse 1] I watched your shoulders move an inch. Saw the doorway in your eyes. I hadn't said the dangerous part, but you'd already picked a side. You heard judgment in a question. Heard goodbye inside a pause. I was standing in the present. You were answering what was. [Pre-Chorus] I know somebody taught you what comes after words like mine. But I'm not who said them last time. And this isn't that night. [Chorus] You built the wall before I finished the sentence. Loaded every word with somebody else's intention. I reached for you. You reached for your defenses. Now we're fighting over something I never said. Before I finished the sentence, you were already at the end. [Verse 2] Maybe I do it too. Hear a change inside your tone and suddenly I'm seventeen, fighting battles you don't know. One delayed reply becomes abandonment. One quiet night becomes the proof. The body finds an old conclusion before the mind can check the truth. [Pre-Chorus] Every scar remembers something. Mine still knows the sound of that goodbye. But a warning from the past isn't always evidence tonight. [Chorus] We build the wall before we finish the sentence. Load each other's words with somebody else's intention. You reach for me. I reach for my defenses. Now we're fighting over something neither one of us said. Before we finish the sentence, we're already at the end. [Bridge] Can you let me finish? Can I let you finish? Can we leave a little silence before deciding what this is? Maybe you aren't who hurt me. Maybe I'm not who hurt you. Maybe neither of us deserves to keep paying someone else's dues. Stay in the room. Stay in the room. Not the old one. This one. Look at my face. Hear my words. Let the present speak first. [Final Chorus] Let me finish the sentence. Don't give my words somebody else's intention. I will try to hear you without reaching for defenses. We can ask before assuming. We can listen past the tension. Maybe healing looks like staying long enough to finish the sentence. [Post-Chorus] Not what they meant. Not what you fear. What did I say? What did you hear? [Outro] You fortified those ache-stained walls before I even finished the sentence. So I'll start again. Are you listening?
