Stay Until It’s Quiet

You don't have to say it. I know. Your coffee's getting cold beside the bed My suitcase hasn't moved since half past ten We talked until the words ran out of meaning Now we're listening to the building breathe again There's nothing left to prove between us No last mistake to rearrange You didn't fail me, I didn't leave you Some things can end without someone to blame So don't turn on the hallway light Don't make the morning start tonight Stay until it's quiet Until goodbye is just a word Until I can hear your name Without hearing everything it was Stay until the room stops holding Every promise that we made We don't have to save this We don't have to fight it Just stay Stay until it's quiet Your hand finds mine from years of repetition Then lets it go like neither one is sure I almost laugh at how the smallest habits Are the hardest things to teach a heart to lose Maybe love can still be honest Even when it cannot stay Maybe leaving isn't failure Maybe staying would be the crueler way Stay until it's quiet Until goodbye is just a word Until I can hear your name Without hearing everything it was Stay until the room stops holding Every promise that we made We don't have to save this We don't have to fight it Just stay Stay until it's quiet If I asked you for forever You would give me one more year We would spend it being careful We would call that love from fear So don't promise me tomorrow Don't apologize again Tonight I only need the person Who was home to me back then Stay. Not because we're changing our minds. Not because this isn't over. Just stay. Stay until it's quiet Until your face is only yours Until the life we built together Doesn't fill every open door Stay while I can still say I love you And not turn love into a chain We don't have to save this We don't have to hate this We can let it end And mean what love became When the first light finds the curtains You can take your coat and go I'll be all right with missing you I just don't need to prove it Before the room is quiet