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Three lonely messages glowing on my screen

I watch the clock drag its feet between

Your name stays still in the cold blue light

I held my breath through another night

I waited too long for a daughter

Open, catch a shadow in a room already broken

Every word you left was half a goodbye

So I'll learn how to live with the pause in your reply

With the silent speak, I'll meet tonight

If love won't answer, I won't chase the light

I gave you every trembling part

Now set it down and let it be

If the silence speak, let it say what it says

Some things don't heal by being addressed

If you never come back, I'll still be here

Listening to the truth in the empty air

I cleared your messages one by one

Blessed from a window when the daylight comes

No more waiting at the edge of the bed

No more rehearsing the words we left unsaid

You taught me how a room can feel crowded

Even with nothing but my own doubts shouting

I'll be a gasolto when I don't reach out

And the choir finally tells me what this was about

But the silent speech of me

Tonight, this love won't answer

I won't chase the light

I gave you every trembling part of me

Now I'll set it down and let it be

Let the silence speak, let it say what it says

Some things don't heal by

Being addressed, if you never come back, I'll still be here

Listening to the truth in the empty air

No more knocking at a locked up door

No more asking what the ache was for

I was waiting for closure to save my name

The stone that showed me is not the sand

Let the science speak for me tonight

I'm done turning hurt into a

Reason to stay alive

I gave you every trembling part of me

So now I'll set it down and let it keep

Let the silence speak, let it hold the line

If love is gone and the quiet is mine

And yes, I'll never answer, I'll still be here

Finally hearing myself in the empty air