Come a Little Closer

Verse 1

I pour the coffee the same way every morning

I answer mail and I pretend I'm fine

I built a wall of little routines around me

So my hands stay busy and my mind won't climb

But I keep a list in the back of my address book

Mark every day I get to cross away

I'm counting mornings like a miser counts his pennies

Hoping somehow they'll decide to stay

Pre-Chorus

And nobody sees it

Everybody says I'm fine

And I smile and nod

And I'm wasting all my time

Chorus

So come a little closer

Let me hold the hours while they're real

Come a little closer

There's so much I never said I feel

Come a little closer

Before the world learns how to steal

Verse 2

I notice things I used to walk right past

The way he laughs when the game's on late

The way she leaves the dishes in the sink

Small human things I used to call my fate

And every person on the morning train

Becomes a stranger I could almost know

I want to call them all and tell them everything

But I'm too afraid to let the river go

Pre-Chorus

And nobody sees it

Everybody says I'm fine

And I smile and nod

And I'm wasting all my time

Chorus

So come a little closer

Let me hold the hours while they're real

Come a little closer

There's so much I never said I feel

Come a little closer

Before the world learns how to steal

Bridge

And I built this silence like a second skin

Kept all my fear inside

But every locked-up word I never said

Is a door I never opened wide

The countdown hasn't stopped

The fear is still the same

But I'm not gonna spend my last good light

Hiding from my own name

Final Chorus

So hold me closer

Let me fill the hours while they're real

Hold me closer

Every word I kept, I'll make you feel

Hold me closer

Nothing here was ever yours to steal

Outro

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