What wasn't said

[Verse 1]

We sat in the dark, both holding back,

A mile of silence between every laugh.

Your eyes asked questions I didn’t hear,

And I answered with silence out of fear.

[Pre-Chorus]

I thought I had more time to speak,

But silence doesn’t wait... it leaves.

[Chorus]

What wasn’t said is louder now,

Than every “I love you” I allow.

The truth I buried just to feel brave

Is the thing I take to my grave.

It’s not the fights, or tears we shed...

What broke us was what wasn’t said.

[Verse 2]

I almost told you to please stay,

But pride got in the goddamn way.

Now I rehearse the lines alone,

To a ghost who never calls the phone.

[Pre-Chorus]

It wasn’t lies that made us end...

It’s words I never let you defend.

[Chorus]

What wasn’t said... the space between,

The looks we gave, the in-betweens.

You needed truth, I gave you grace,

But grace won’t hold an empty space.

I should’ve begged, I ran instead...

You slipped through what wasn’t said.

[Instrumental Pause]

[Bridge]

It’s not your voice that haunts the night,

It’s mine... the words I didn’t write.

I didn’t lose you to someone else…

I lost you to myself.

Myself...

[Pre-Chorus]

If you'd turned around that final day...

Maybe we’d still be writing our always.

[Final Chorus]

What wasn’t said... the space between,

The looks we gave, the in-betweens.

You needed truth, I gave you grace,

But grace won’t hold an empty space.

I should’ve begged, I ran instead...

You slipped through what wasn’t said.

Now every song is almost true,

A verse too late to get to you.

I held it in... and that’s what bled...

What killed us was what wasn’t said.

[Outro]

Now every song is almost true,

A verse too late to get to you.

I held it in... and that’s what bled...

What killed us was what wasn’t said.

So if you wonder why I fade,

Know I had everything... but never stayed.

And if you still live inside my head...

It’s just the echo

Of what wasn’t said.