The Key Left in the Bowl

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Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Morning routine playing out

Same coffee marks on the same old counter

You laugh at something on the screen

I laugh a second late

And the room still feels the same

But the air is getting thinner every day

Pre-Chorus

We kept the lights on

Pretending nothing's wrong

We kept the lights on

Chorus

Stay another hour

Stay another night

We talk around the edges till we're tired

Stay another hour

Before the silence wins

I'll hold the line until it bends

Verse 2

Phone lights up at midnight

You angle it away from me

Little maps of anxious lines

Now drawn across your face

I ask you who's been calling

You tell me no one, softly

And something in my chest

Just tightens like a fist

Pre-Chorus

We kept the lights on

We kept the doors shut

And nobody said a word

Chorus

Stay another hour

Stay another night

We talk around the edges till we're tired

Stay another hour

Before the silence wins

I'll hold the line until it bends

Bridge

Then your coat was gone from the hook by morning

The key was left in the bowl

And I stood in the cold of the hallway

Reading the note you left in my hand

So careful. So kind. So finished.

I read it twice to make it hurt the same

And I finally heard what you'd been saying

With the words you never said to me at all

Chorus

I'm not staying for another hour

I'm not staying for another night

I won't talk around the edges anymore

I'm done holding a line

That was never mine to bend

I'm walking out of the quiet

And I'm not coming back again

Outro

Not coming back

Not coming back

Not coming back again

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