Half-Built Home

[Verse 1]

You left your boots by my door

Said you'd grab them “some night soon”

Coffee rings and August dust

Still holding space for you

I talk to chairs

That never answer back

Fold your shirt

Then unfold what we had

[Chorus]

This is our half-built home

Nails in the frame

But the roof's still open

Rain in the bedroom

Dripping on promises we left unspoken

If you can't stay

Then say it slow

Don't just fade like a late-night show

This is our half-built home

And I'm still here

Still here holding

[Verse 2]

You hum that song under breath

I catch the end from down the hall

Two cracked cups on the counter

Like we both forgot to call

You stare at maps

I stare at your hands

Same old road

Different plans

[Chorus]

This is our half-built home

Nails in the frame

But the roof's still open

Rain in the bedroom

Dripping on promises we left unspoken

If you can't stay

Then say it slow

Don't just fade like a late-night show

This is our half-built home

And I'm still here

Still here holding

[Bridge]

[Soft strings rise

Second vocal steps forward]

I’ll take the boxes from the attic

You take the stories in your chest

Meet in the doorway

Scared and static

Both of us praying we did our best (yeah)

If breaking is loving

Then we loved hard

Two cracked hearts

Same backyard

[Chorus]

This is our half-built home

Nails in the frame

But the roof's still open

Rain in the bedroom

Dripping on promises we left unspoken

If you can't stay

Then say it slow

Don’t just fade like a late-night show

This is our half-built home

So if you go

Leave the key

On the porch

Next to me