The Part That Didn't Know

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

I found a photograph of us

Before the walls went up

We were lighter than the summer air

Before we learned to interrupt

The quiet with our reasons

The silence with our doubt

Now I'm tracing all the lines you drew

Trying to figure out

Pre-Chorus

Where I went wrong

Where you went quiet

Where the middle couldn't hold

Chorus

You were always patient

With the part of me that broke

You held the door a little longer

With every word I never spoke

And I'm still learning how to stay

When everything inside says go

You were always patient

With the part of me that didn't know

Verse 2

I drove across the county line

Chasing what I couldn't name

Left the porch light on for weeks

Like somehow that would change

The way I kept returning

To habits I had outgrown

You never locked the door behind me

You just waited by the phone

Pre-Chorus

Where I went wrong

Where you went quiet

Where the middle couldn't hold

Chorus

You were always patient

With the part of me that broke

You held the door a little longer

With every word I never spoke

And I'm still learning how to stay

When everything inside says go

You were always patient

With the part of me that didn't know

Bridge

I'm not the same man

I was when I left

But you already saw him

Underneath the rest

You already knew

That I'd find my way

You were patient

Patient anyway

Chorus

You were always patient

With the part of me that broke

You held the door a little longer

With every word I never spoke

And I'm still learning how to stay

When everything inside says go

You were always patient

With the part of me that didn't know

Outro

Mm

Patient

Patient

With the part of me

That didn't