[Verse 1] Your message waits beside the sink My brother calls; I stop to think The calendar has swallowed days With names I love in colored rays I give you all the careful words Then lose the one I meant to say My hands keep reaching out for everyone While mine are slipping away [Pre-Chorus] I don't want less of you I need a little room to breathe [Chorus] I can love you and still need space A quiet hour, an unhurried place I won't disappear, I won't let go I need some ground where my own roots grow The door stays open, the light stays on I can come back whole when the day's gone I can love you and still need space And meet you with my whole heart again [Verse 2] Your son has lost his blue raincoat My friend needs help to move a chair Dad asks if I can make it Sunday And I say yes before I'm there I know the small things make a life The rides, the meals, the staying late But care can turn to keeping score When I don't leave room to hesitate [Pre-Chorus] I don't want less of you I need a little room to breathe [Chorus] I can love you and still need space A quiet hour, an unhurried place I won't disappear, I won't let go I need some ground where my own roots grow The door stays open, the light stays on I can come back whole when the day's gone I can love you and still need space And meet you with my whole heart again [Bridge] Tonight I'll leave the dishes there I'll let the phone ring once or twice I'll sit beside the kitchen window And hear the radiator click No grand goodbye, no locked-out heart No tally of who's owed what when Just enough silence to remember How to offer love again [Breakdown] Not a wall Not a leaving Just a breath Just a minute [Final Chorus] I can love you and still need space A quiet hour, an unhurried place I won't disappear, I won't let go I need some ground where my own roots grow The door stays open, the light stays on I can come back whole when the day's gone I can love you and still need space And meet you with my whole heart again [Outro] I'll call you when I can be here Not only present, but truly near
