Slowly

You always said he was a friend;

And maybe that was true back then;

I never saw a line get crossed;

I just watched something slowly get lost;

There were no secrets, no slam doors;

Just little things that weren't there before;

And I kept telling myself

I was imagining it all;

But love doesn't disappear overnight;

It fades in ways you barely notice;

Nobody leaves;

All at once;

It's the silence, it's the distance;

It's the way you stop reaching out;

You never lied, you just stopped looking at me the same;

Maybe that's what broke me most;

I lost you slowly before

I lost you completely;

I don't blame him and

I don't blame you;

Maybe hearts change the way seasons do;

Nobody wakes up planning to fall;

Maybe nobody means to at all;

And I still remember the way you used to laugh with me;

Funny how memories can feel so close and so far away;

Maybe we both saw it coming;

But neither one of us knew what to say;

Nobody leaves;

All at once;

It's the silence;

It's the distance;

It's the way you stop reaching out;

You never lied;

You just stopped looking at me the same;

And maybe that's what;

Broke me most;

I lost you slowly;

Before I lost you completely;

Sometimes love ends;

Long before goodbye;

And sometimes people leave;

Without ever saying why;

I think I knew;

Long before I let myself believe;

Nobody leaves;

All at once;

It's the quiet between the words;

The empty spaces where we used to be;

You never lied;

You just stopped looking at me the same;

And I think I knew;

Long before I let myself believe;

I lost you slowly;

That's why it hurts so much;

I don′t know what to do;