We Disappeared in Inches

[Verse 1] There was no siren in the kitchen No warning written on the wall Just dinners cooling between us And conversations getting small I learned the shape of your shoulders When you turned away at night You learned to stop asking questions I learned to say that I was fine [Pre-Chorus] We didn’t lose it all at once We lost it every time we said nothing [Chorus] We disappeared in inches One silence at a time Sleeping in the same bed On opposite sides of our lives By the time I crossed the line We’d been leaving for a while That doesn’t make my wrong less mine It only names the road behind We disappeared in inches Till there was nowhere left to hide [Verse 2] I kept whole rooms inside me You stopped knocking at the door We became experts at pretending We didn’t need each other anymore I looked for proof that I was living In a life that wasn’t true I chose the match and struck it But we’d been gathering the fuel [Pre-Chorus] I won’t hand you half the blame For the choices in my name But I won’t lie about the distance Or pretend it came that day [Chorus] We disappeared in inches One silence at a time Sleeping in the same bed On opposite sides of our lives By the time I crossed the line We’d been leaving for a while That doesn’t make my wrong less mine It only names the road behind We disappeared in inches Till there was nowhere left to hide [Bridge] We called endurance devotion We called avoidance peace We guarded all our separate wounds And wondered why they wouldn’t heal If I could go back, I would speak Before the secret learned my voice Before I made a single moment That would take away your choice [Breakdown] I did the breaking I own the sound But cracks were running through us Long before I burned it down [Final Chorus] We disappeared in inches But I see the distance now Every door I kept between us Every truth I wouldn’t allow I can’t walk back across the line Or ask you to forget But I can stop abandoning The words I haven’t said We disappeared in inches I won’t disappear again [Outro] No thunder No siren Just the truth arriving late We disappeared in inches Now I have to face the space