Verse 1
We ordered the usual You fell asleep mid-sentence I turned the volume down Like I'd done a thousand times before The kind of thing you do When a thousand times Feels like it could be A thousand more
Pre-Chorus
I didn't know it was the last one I'd have paid more attention I'd have stayed awake longer Memorized the whole thing
Chorus
The last normal night Before the language changed Before the weight of us Got too specific to contain The last normal night — Coffee in the morning See you tonight — And I said yeah And I said yeah Like it was nothing Like it was just another yeah
Verse 2
There's a photo from that weekend Nothing special — just a table Just the light doing that thing It always did in autumn I keep it where I'll find it Then move it when I do — The last normal night Started like every night with you
Pre-Chorus
I didn't know it was the last one I'd have said the thing I'd been saving I'd have skipped the version of me That was always almost saying
Chorus
The last normal night Before the language changed Before the weight of us Got too specific to contain The last normal night — Coffee in the morning See you tonight — And I said yeah And I said yeah Like it was nothing Like it was just another yeah
Bridge
The dishes were still in the sink Two cups, two plates, two of everything I washed them the next morning Because I didn't know yet — I washed them because I didn't know yet I dried them and put them back In the cabinet like always Like always Like always
Outro
The last normal night... I said yeah... Didn't know... Didn't know...
Verse 1
I keep the radio loud enough To sound like someone's home There's a version of this evening I've been living alone I had the words in perfect order Every night for four years straight Turns out perfect order Is just another word for late
Pre-Chorus
I don't mourn, I accelerate I don't feel, I navigate The only thing worse than losing you Is all this time I have to think about it
Chorus
So I drive into the frequency Where your voice still lives in everything Windows down, the city bleeding past Holding onto something moving too fast I loved you in a language I never spoke Now it's fluent and it's all I know Drive into the dark, into the static, into the sound Looking for the place Where your frequency is found
Verse 2
You had a draft you never finished Three words and my name and nothing after I read it like instructions For a life I never mastered I laughed at something yesterday The kind you would have stolen first Opened my mouth to share it That's the specific kind of hurt
Pre-Chorus
I don't grieve, I just keep moving I don't sleep, I just keep proving That a man can run on empty Long enough to almost believe it
Chorus
So I drive into the frequency Where your voice still lives in everything Windows down, the city bleeding past Holding onto something moving too fast I loved you in a language I never spoke Now it's fluent and it's all I know Drive into the dark, into the static, into the sound Looking for the place Where your frequency is found
Bridge
I loved you — Not past tense, present tense, wrong tense Every tense at once A language with no word For what comes after this
Bridge (cont.)
You deserved the sentence While you were still the subject Now you're every word And I'm just reading it
Final Chorus
So I drive into the frequency Into everything you left in everything Windows down, the years bleeding past Some things only make sense moving fast I loved you in a language I never spoke It's the only one I know Drive into the dark, into the static Into whatever this is Looking for the only frequency That was ever mine to miss
Verse 1
Half the closet still has someone in it Toothbrush on the left like always Found a grocery list inside a jacket — Milk and bread and your handwriting
Pre-Chorus
I keep meaning to box it up Keep finding reasons not to The last place you still live Is the last place I can lose you
Chorus
I can't move your half I can't move your half Everything else — I'm fine — But I can't move your half The jacket on the hook The mug with the chip — I can't move your half And I don't know what that says about this
Verse 2
Moved one scarf last Tuesday To the other side — then back — Not yet — I'm not saying never — Just not ready for that
Pre-Chorus
I keep meaning to be steady Keep meaning to be ready The half that's still yours Is the last thing I'm not letting go
Chorus
I can't move your half I can't move your half Everything else — I'm fine — But I can't move your half The jacket on the hook The mug with the chip — I can't move your half And I don't know what that says about this
Bridge
One day I'll move everything One day it'll just be mine — One day — But today the scarf stays Today the mug stays Today your half stays — Because you were here You were real You were worth Every single half
Final Chorus
I can't move your half I won't move your half — Not yet — not tonight — Not while it still feels like half — The jacket on the hook The mug with the chip — I can't move your half — And I'm not sure I'm sorry about it
Verse 1
I do my grieving in the car Between the office and the door Public face intact by nine Completely gone by four I've mastered all the right responses Time heals, they're in a better place Meanwhile I'm in a parking structure Saying your name into the space
Pre-Chorus
Because out there I'm fine Out there I'm moving on Out there I'm the man Who's almost already gone
Chorus
But nobody's watching when I say your name Nobody's watching when I go insane Nobody sees the man who had it all to give And gave it to an empty room instead I loved you where nobody'd ever know In the dark, in the quiet, in the undertow Nobody's watching So I finally let it show Nobody's watching And I miss you so
Verse 2
You loved me like you'd made your mind up Years before I had a clue I was out here being careful While you were certain about who They showed me what you had half-written Three words, a comma, then my name I think that comma was you waiting For me to come and do the same
Pre-Chorus
But out there I was steady Out there I had time Out there the right moment Was always one moment behind
Bridge
I used to think love needed an occasion The right light, the right words, the right version of me Turns out love just needed a Tuesday An ordinary Tuesday That I spent being almost ready So here's the occasion Here's the light Here are the words Three years too late on a Thursday night
Final Chorus
Nobody's watching when I say your name Nobody's watching but I say it anyway Because somebody should know That you were loved before you left Somebody should say it Even now Even yet Nobody's watching So I say it to the dark Nobody's watching You were always in my heart Nobody's watching Nobody has to know I just needed somewhere To finally let it go
Verse 1
Marcus called on Wednesday Said just checking in — you good? Said yeah — third time this week — The way you do When good is all that fits In the space someone gives you When they love you But don't know where to put it
Pre-Chorus
They want to say the right thing There isn't a right thing And I love them for trying God I love them for trying
Chorus
Nobody knows what to say So nobody says the thing — Nobody knows what to do So everybody does everything Except the one thing — Just stay Just stay Just stay That's all Just stay
Verse 2
Dani showed up Tuesday Didn't call — just knocked Sat on the floor — didn't speak — Just stayed That was it That was the whole thing That landed That was enough
Pre-Chorus
Quiet was the right thing First right thing in weeks I love them for staying God I love them for staying
Chorus
Nobody knows what to say So nobody says the thing — Nobody knows what to do So everybody does everything Except the one thing — Just stay Just stay Just stay That's all Just stay
Bridge
Don't fix it Don't reframe it Don't tell me what it means — Just sit here Come back Tuesday Do it again —
Bridge (cont.)
That's what I need That's all I need That's everything
Final Chorus
Nobody knows what to say — I finally know what to say — Just stay — that's it — Just stay — that's the way — Through the thing that has no script — Just stay Just stay Just stay That's all Just stay
Verse 1
I sleep on my side still Three weeks in — still my side — The other side is perfect Pillow still has the shape Of the last morning you were in it I could move to the middle I keep not moving to the middle Something about the middle Feels like saying it's over
Pre-Chorus
And it's not over It's just different now — Different in a way That my body hasn't learned yet
Chorus
Still reach for you at 3am Still reach — arm out — automatic — Four years don't just stop — Four years don't just stop — Still reach for you at 3am Still half asleep — still reaching — Half the bed is still yours And my body hasn't got the news
Verse 2
Bought new sheets last month Stood in the aisle — forty minutes — Bought the same ones we had Stood in the door holding them — Same ones — same thread count — Like my hands remembered What my head was trying to forget
Pre-Chorus
And I'm not stupid I know you're not coming back — My body just hasn't Learned to believe that yet
Chorus
Still reach for you at 3am Still reach — arm out — automatic — Four years don't just stop — Four years don't just stop — Still reach for you at 3am Still half asleep — still reaching — Half the bed is still yours And my body hasn't got the news
Bridge
Last night — arm out — automatic — Four years of automatic — One day the body learns — One day the arm stays put —
Bridge (cont.)
Not yet — Not yet — Made the bed this morning — That's something — That's something — That's something
Final Chorus
Still reach for you at 3am — Still reach — God I'm still reaching — Four years don't just stop — Four years — four years — four years — Still reach for you at 3am — Every night — every night — Half the bed is still yours — My body still hasn't got the news
Verse 1
Thursday — wrong coffee shop — Saw you through the glass — Laughing at something I don't know anymore — The laugh I know every version of — That one was new — Lighter than anything I ever gave you
Pre-Chorus
You didn't see me Which was the only gift Thursday had the nerve to give — I got to watch you Just for a second Being free
Chorus
You looked lighter — God you looked lighter — Than the last time I saw your face — You looked lighter — I took the long way home And cried the whole way Because you looked lighter — And that's the only thing That's gonna save me
Verse 2
Paid the bill before you turned — Took the route with all our corners — Every window — every place — Didn't cry until I hit the street — Then I cried the whole way home — Not for me — For you — For what you looked like Through that glass
Pre-Chorus
You still didn't see me Still the only gift — I still got to watch you Just being — Just free — Just everything
Chorus
You looked lighter — God you looked lighter — Than the last time I saw your face — You looked lighter — I took the long way home And cried the whole way Because you looked lighter — And that's the only thing That's gonna save me
Bridge
I used to think Running into you would break something — Turns out it just — Named something —
Bridge (cont.)
You're okay — You're okay — You're okay — And so am I — So am I
Final Chorus
You looked lighter — God you looked lighter — Best thing I've seen in months — You looked lighter — Took the long way home — Cried the whole damn way — Because you looked lighter — And I think I'm gonna be okay I think I'm gonna be okay
Verse 1
Midnight and the city doesn't know I'm here Just me and the streetlights and a half tank of gear No place to be, nobody waiting up Just the hum of the engine and a nearly empty cup I do this sometimes when the walls get thin When the quiet gets loud and the day gets in Roll the windows down, let the cold air clear — I don't know where I'm going but I can't stay here
Pre-Chorus
It's not loneliness exactly More like needing room to breathe Something about the city moving Makes it easier to be me
Chorus
Neon and nothing, that's all I need tonight Just the road and the radio and the red and the white Neon and nothing — nobody knows my name Out here in the middle of everything I am beautifully, quietly sane Neon and nothing — I am finally okay
Verse 2
Passed the bar we used to close on Friday nights Passed the street where you said goodbye in yellow light Passed the version of myself I used to be Didn't stop — just nodded — let him be There's a freedom in the driving that I can't explain Like the motion is the medicine for everything unnamed The city holds me without asking why — And sometimes that's exactly right
Pre-Chorus
It's not loneliness exactly More like needing room to breathe Something about the city moving Makes it easier to be me
Chorus
Neon and nothing, that's all I need tonight Just the road and the radio and the red and the white Neon and nothing — nobody knows my name Out here in the middle of everything I am beautifully, quietly sane Neon and nothing — I am finally okay
Bridge
Maybe this is what peace looks like Not a mountain, not a prayer Just a man and forty miles And the cold November air Maybe healing isn't quiet Maybe it's this — Neon and nothing and a road that goes on like this
Outro
Driving and driving... Neon and nothing... I'll go home when I'm ready I'll go home when I'm ready...
Verse 1
Marcus said something at dinner — I won't tell you what — But I laughed — The real kind — Not the one I've been performing At every check-in for three months — The one that comes from somewhere You forgot you still had
Pre-Chorus
Four whole seconds Before the guilt showed up — Right on schedule — Uninvited — as always
Chorus
I laughed today — First time in I don't know how long — I laughed today — And I didn't feel wrong — Four seconds of forgetting And it felt like coming up for air — I laughed today — And you would've laughed too If you'd been there
Verse 2
Told Dani about it later — Is that normal? — Dani said that's exactly it — Said the laughing is the proof — That underneath the grief There's still a you — And something in that Hit different
Pre-Chorus
What kind of man laughs In the middle of this — The kind that's going to make it — That's the kind — That's the kind
Chorus
I laughed today — First time in I don't know how long — I laughed today — And I didn't feel wrong — Four seconds of forgetting And it felt like coming up for air — I laughed today — And you would've laughed too If you'd been there
Bridge
Next time I'm letting it All the way in — Four seconds — Eight seconds — However long it needs —
Bridge (cont.)
The grief and the laugh Can live in the same chest — I'm proof — I'm living proof — I laughed today I laughed today I laughed today
Final Chorus
I laughed today — Real laugh — whole laugh — I laughed today — And it didn't hurt — Not this time — Not this time — I laughed today — And I think you would've loved That I laughed today
Verse 1
Suitcase in the hallway since Tuesday — Keep walking past it — almost ready — Apartment's empty now Strange how empty Has its own kind of heavy — Left the coffee cup with the chip — Packed everything — left just that — Felt like something That belonged to who I was in there
Pre-Chorus
Not because it's over — Just because this city Knows too many things about me — And I need a city That doesn't know anything yet
Chorus
Nobody here knows my name — Nobody here knows what happened — Nobody here knows my name — And I can be anyone — Anyone — I could be the version That got it right from the start — Nobody here knows my name — And that feels like A brand new heart
Verse 2
New coffee shop — new corner — New the way the light comes through new glass — New version of me that finally asked For something different — something mine — Terrified — and fine — Both at once — that's new too — That's new and I'll take it — I'll take all of it
Pre-Chorus
Not because I won — Just because the road Is the only thing that's mine right now — And that's enough — That's actually enough
Chorus
Nobody here knows my name — Nobody here knows what happened — Nobody here knows my name — And I can be anyone — Anyone — I could be the version That got it right from the start — Nobody here knows my name — And that feels like A brand new heart
Bridge
I'm taking all of it with me — The long way home — The grocery list — The last normal night — The laugh — All of it — Not as weight — As proof — Proof I loved something all the way — Proof I survived it — Proof I'm still here — Still here — Still here — New city — I'm ready — I'm ready — I'm ready
Final Chorus
Nobody here knows my name — Nobody here knows what I left — Nobody here knows my name — And the grief and the road and the neon — Were just the long way Back to being alive — Nobody here knows my name — New city — new year — Brand new heart — Brand new heart — Brand new heart
Verse 1
Seven years old in the backseat crying Dad turned around, said son, what are you doing Said boys don't leak, we carry the weight We swallow the flood, we stand in the rain So I packed it all down somewhere deep in my chest Learned to smile at the fire, learned to laugh at the rest Wore my silence like armor, wore my calm like a crown Built a man out of stone so I'd never fall down
Pre-Chorus
But who taught the stone to want things? Who taught the wall to ache? Who's gonna hold the one who's been Holding everyone in place?
Chorus
Oh, I've been carrying it, carrying it Carrying it home in the dark Oh, I've been wearing it, wearing it Like it was written on my heart Every "man up", every "don't you cry" Every dream I buried just to get by But I am more than what I could survive — I want to be alive, I want to be alive
Verse 2
I gave her my steady, I gave him my strong Showed up to the table and never said I don't belong Swallowed my hunger, swallowed my fear Worked 'til my body said brother, we're done here There's a boy in the mirror I haven't seen in years He's been waiting so patient behind all this armor He says you don't have to earn it, you don't have to prove There's nothing left to carry if you just let yourself move
Final Chorus
Oh, I've been carrying it, carrying it Carrying it home in the dark Oh, I've been wearing it, wearing it Like it was written on my heart Every "man up", every "don't you cry" Every dream I buried just to get by But I am more than what I could survive — I want to be alive, I want to be alive
Verse 1
First job at fifteen, never looked back Learned early that love came attached to an act Dad didn't hug much but the lights stayed on I thought that was the language, thought that was the song So I built and I hustled, I signed and I spent Measured my worth by the cheques that I sent Couldn't sit still 'cause still meant not enough Couldn't say I love you so I bought her the stuff
Pre-Chorus
But what happens to the man When the man can't pay the bill? What's left of him to love When he's finally standing still?
Chorus
I have been working, working Working myself to the bone Thought if I provided, provided Nobody could call me alone But the house and the car and the suit and the plan They were never gonna make me a man I just wanted someone to say — You are enough, you are enough today
Verse 2
March of last year the whole thing came down Walked out of that office and drove around town Couldn't go home, couldn't say the words Sat in a car park for three hours, unheard Called my brother, said everything's fine Hung up before he could read between the lines What kind of prison is built out of pride? Four walls of silence with a man still inside
Bridge
I don't want to be a number I don't want to be a role I am more than my productivity — God, I just want to be whole
Final Chorus
I am done working, working Working to earn my place I am just a man, just a man With a tired and a wanting face Lay down the ladder, lay down the weight You were always more than what you made You were always someone worth the stay — You are enough, you are enough today
Verse 1
Fifteen years, same bar stool, same beer Talk about football and never what's real I know your order, I know your team But brother I don't know what keeps you from sleep We laugh too loud 'cause the silence is heavy We joke about dying 'cause neither's quite ready To say the thing that's been sitting right there — I don't know how to tell you I care
Pre-Chorus
Side by side our whole lives And I have never reached across Side by side, what a way To be so close and so lost
Chorus
Oh we were side by side, side by side Never saying what we meant Side by side, side by side All those years already spent I would've held you if you'd let me Would've stayed up through your dark We were side by side our whole lives And still miles apart
Verse 2
I heard you lost your dad last spring Sent a text because I couldn't do anything Showed up with beer, not with words, not with arms We watched the game and I watched you fall apart And I swallowed it down like I always do Pretended that I didn't see right through you Two broken men in a room full of noise — God, what did they do to us boys?
Bridge
I love you, man I don't know why that's so hard I love you, man We're not as tough as we've starred I love you, man That should've been said years ago I love you, man Now you know Now you know
Final Chorus
No more side by side, side by side Saying nothing, looking away Side by side — I reach across I've got something I need to say I would've held you, I should've held you Should've stayed inside your dark Done being side by side our whole lives And breaking each other's hearts
Verse 1
I heard my father's voice come out of my mouth Same cold and controlled going north going south Same wall going up when the feelings got big Same "because I said so" same "that's what men did" My boy was just standing there six years old Eyes full of questions and a heart going cold I saw myself in him — I saw him in me And I saw what I'd lose if I didn't break free
Pre-Chorus
These are my hands Same shape as his Am I building the same walls That he built for this?
Chorus
I will not pass this down, pass this down This silence, this stone, this pride I will not pass this down, pass this down I'll be the one who breaks the line My father did the best with what his father gave And his father carried what he couldn't name But it stops right here, it stops today — Son, I'm learning how to stay
Verse 2
Called him last year on a Thursday night First real conversation in the whole of my life He said I don't know why I was the way that I was Said I'm sorry, son — first time ever because Sixty-three years of a man in a cage Two sentences cracked him right open with age I cried in the car then I called my own kid Said I love you more than my father ever did
Bridge
This is where it ends This is where it ends I am the generation That finally bends This is where it heals This is where it heals No more hiding what a father Actually feels
Outro
I have my father's hands But not his silence I have my father's strength But not his distance I am my father's son And I'll go further — Go and tell your son you love him Tell your son you love him
Verse 1
The kids are taller than I remember them being I was in the room but I wasn't quite seeing Too busy building the thing that would prove That I was worth the space I was taking up My wife said something at dinner last week Said you look right through me when I try to speak And I wanted to argue but God she was right — I've been somewhere else every night
Pre-Chorus
When did the years learn to run like that? When did I stop looking up? When did living become a plan And the plan become enough?
Chorus
I am still here, I am still here It's not too late, I'm still here The table is set and the people are real And I can still learn how to feel I wasted so much trying to arrive — But I am standing in my own life Still here, I am still here Come back, come back, come back
Verse 2
Sunday morning my daughter made eggs Told some story about something her friend said And I put down the phone and I looked in her eyes And she stopped mid-sentence, said Dad, you alright? And I said yeah I'm just — I just want to hear it And something moved in the room, I could feel it Like years of distance collapsing at once — This is everything, this was always enough
Bridge
Not the title Not the salary Not the house upon the hill Not the version of yourself That you performed against your will Just this table Just this morning Just these people, just this breath — You don't have to earn the right to rest
Final Chorus
I am still here, I am still here Waking up in my own life The table is set and the people are real And I'm done performing being fine All those years I spent trying to arrive — I was already home, I was already home Still here, still here I am finally here
Verse 1
You were leaving on a Tuesday I was standing by the door Said drive safe said talk soon Like I'd said a hundred times before But something in your face that day Was asking for a different word And I gave you what I always gave — A silence that you heard
Pre-Chorus
All the things I meant to say Are still sitting in my chest I was saving them for later — God I thought we had the rest
Chorus
I should've said I love you Should've said you saved my life Should've said I see you, I see you Through every broken night Should've said I'm sorry Should've said I'm scared Should've said I need you — Should've said it while you were there
Verse 2
Now I'm standing at a gravestone Or a doorway, or a phone Saying everything so clearly To a signal or a stone What a thing to be a man who Learned to hold it all inside Now I'm fluent in the language Of too little and too late and goodbye
Bridge
I am saying it now Even if you can't hear it I am saying it now God I hope somehow you feel it I love you, I loved you Every single broken day I'm sorry that I was so afraid I'm sorry I was so afraid
Final Chorus
I'm saying it now, I love you I'm saying it now, you matter I'm saying it now before the moment Has a chance to shatter Won't be the man who swallows it Won't let the silence win — Every word I should have said I'm saying it I'm saying it I'm saying it now
Outro
Say it now Say it now Say it now
Verse 1
Gym at six, check the mirror twice Same reflection looking back — never quite right Pull the shirt down, suck it in a little Always been a little lost, always been a riddle Scrolling through a feed of men I'll never be Jawlines like a sculpture, what does that say about me? Put the phone away, put the armor on Another day of pretending nothing's wrong
Pre-Chorus
Nobody asks a man how he feels about his face Nobody asks a man if he hates the skin he's in But brother I've been standing in this mirror Since I can't remember when
Chorus
I'm a glass man, see-through when I'm honest All this confidence was just a promise I made to myself at seventeen To never let them see me breaking at the seams Glass man, dressed up like he's winning Same old war I've always been in With the man I see looking back at me — Glass man, trying to be free
Verse 2
Thirty-something now and the hairline's moving back Wearing it like a headline, wearing it like an attack Dad said looking good is how you take the room Nobody said what happens when the room sees through you I've been holding in my stomach at the beach Been wearing long sleeves in the summer heat What a quiet prison, what a heavy game — Every man I know is playing just the same
Bridge
You know what's wild? Every man in every room Is doing the same thing — Sucking it in Standing a little taller Wondering if anyone notices They all notice because they're all doing it too
Final Chorus
I'm done being a glass man Done making myself promises That this body is a problem That I'm something less than this Glass man — stepping out the mirror The reflection's getting clearer I don't need to be anyone but me — Glass man — finally free
Verse 1
Left her on read for a day and a half Showed up to the party, made everybody laugh Told my boys I wasn't really feeling it But I drove past her street — yeah I'm not admitting it She called me easy, said I'm hard to reach Said loving me was like loving a beach — Beautiful and empty and gone with the tide I said that's fine — I was dying inside
Pre-Chorus
Cool like that, yeah I played it so cool Cool like that — God I played the fool Every whatever every it's all good Was just I love you in a language I never understood
Chorus
I was cool like that, cool like that Too proud to say I wanted you to stay Cool like that, cool like that While my whole heart was getting in the way I had the words right there on the tip of my tongue Swallowed them down like I'd always done Baby I was never cool — I was just a man in love acting like a fool
Verse 2
She moved on by October, some new guy I double-tapped a photo and I wanted to die Called it moving on, called it being grown Ate my dinner by myself completely alone There's a text draft I wrote at two AM Must've wrote it and deleted it again Said I miss you, I was scared, I didn't know how — Still unsent — I'm sending it now
Bridge
Somebody told me that playing it cool Was the only way to win But I've been losing you in slow motion While acting like I'm zen No more whatever No more I'm fine No more pretending that this heart of mine Doesn't want what it wants — Baby it wants you
Outro
Cool like that... cool like that... (I was never cool) (I just loved you like that)
Verse 1
I've been rehearsing this in the shower for weeks The words come easy when there's nobody to see But face to face the whole speech disappears Replaced by yeah and sure and I hear ya I owe you something that I never gave A straight-up sorry, no but and no shade No redirecting back to what you did — Just me, accountable, no longer a kid
Pre-Chorus
Every apology I ever gave Had an exit built inside I'm sorry but — I'm sorry if — I'm sorry you felt that way — that lie
Chorus
Let me say it sober, say it clean No conditions, no in-between Just — I was wrong and you deserved better Just — I'm sorry, let me say it sober No more running from the words No more sorry that sounds like but Let me stand here in the open — Say it sober, say it once, say it right
Verse 2
Pride is a poison I've been drinking neat Tastes like being right in every damn defeat But I've been counting all the rooms I've left All the backs I've turned, all the silences kept You deserved a man who could look you in the eye Say that was me, that was wrong, here's why Not a rewrite, not a victim story — Just the truth in all its unglamorous glory
Bridge
I hurt you And I knew it when I did it I hurt you And I let my pride forbid it — Forbid the truth Forbid the grace Forbid the tears from coming down my face But I'm done with that I'm done with that — Watch me say it to your face
Final Chorus
Saying it sober, saying it clean No conditions, no in-between I was wrong — God, you deserved so much better I'm sorry — hear me say it sober No more running, I'm right here Standing in it, crystal clear This is me with nothing left to hide — I'm sorry — and I mean it this time
Verse 1
Told everyone I was doing great Went out on a Friday, came home late New number in my phone, new face, new scene But I drove home thinking about what you mean Yeah I kept the sweater, still in the drawer Couldn't tell you what I'm keeping it for It's a little worn now, still smells like you — Some things I just can't bring myself to move
Pre-Chorus
Grief looks different on a man who's been told To keep it moving, keep it together, keep it cold So I kept it moving — but I never moved on — I just got good at pretending you were gone
Chorus
I'm still wearing your sweater in the dark Still got your laugh living in my heart Told the whole world I was over it — I lied, I lied, and I'm not proud of it Still wearing your sweater, holding on To something beautiful that's already gone A man in love who never learned to grieve — Still wearing your sweater, still believing
Verse 2
Saw you tagged in something last July Someone's wedding, you were laughing, looking fine I was happy for you — I swear I was — Then I sat with it for a week, just because There's a song we used to play on Sunday mornings I skipped it twice before I stopped ignoring Put it on and let myself go back there for a bit — I think I needed that, I think I needed it
Bridge
I'm not saying I want you back I'm saying I never said goodbye I'm not saying this is love anymore I'm saying I never let myself cry So I'm crying now — yeah I'm crying now Letting it be what it was Beautiful and real and over — And that's enough, that's enough
Outro
I'll fold it up someday Put it somewhere out of reach Not today — but someday When I'm ready to be free...
Verse 1
Woke up on a Wednesday, nothing special about it Made my coffee slow, didn't rush, didn't doubt it Left my phone face down for the first time in years Sat with the quiet and it didn't taste like fear I used to run from empty like it meant something was wrong Now I know the silence is where I belong Called my friend and told him that I missed him out loud Man, you should've heard the sound — we both just laughed so proud
Pre-Chorus
Something cracked open and the light got in Didn't have to earn it, didn't have to win Just had to stop pretending I was made of stone — Turns out I was never really alone
Chorus
It's open season on feeling everything I'm done being careful with my heart Open season — let the whole thing sing This is how it feels to fall apart And come back together, come back stronger Come back as yourself for the first time Open season — brother, it's your turn — Step into the light, step into the light!
Verse 2
Told my daughter that I cried at a movie last night She said Dad that's beautiful and held me so tight Never knew that showing up real was the bravest thing Thought I had to be the wall, turns out I just had to be Started saying I don't know and I'm not okay Started asking for directions on the hardest days And the world — the world didn't crumble, nobody laughed Just a bunch of tired men saying me too, at last
Bridge
We were never meant to carry it alone We were never meant to turn ourselves to stone Every wall we built was just a door we hadn't found — Kick it open, kick it open, let it all come down! We are laughing, we are crying, we are both at once We are fathers, we are brothers, we are someone's sons We are finally, God we're finally, learning to be found — Open up, open up, let it all come down!
Final Chorus
It's OPEN SEASON on feeling everything No more being careful with our hearts Open season — hear the whole world sing Beautiful, the falling apart Coming back together, back together Back as ourselves for the first time Open season — everyone, it's your turn — Step into the light! Step into the light! STEP INTO THE LIGHT!
Outro
Open season, open season Open, open, open — Ha — ha — ha — ha
Verse 1
Hey, I see you in the parking lot sitting Hands on the wheel and your jaw tightly gripping Whatever happened in there wasn't easy I know that look — man, I've worn it completely You don't have to drive away pretending Don't have to call it fine when it's not ending You're allowed to be a human in a hard year — Brother, nothing about this means you failed here
Pre-Chorus
You carried more than anyone should carry You held the line when everything was heavy And nobody — nobody — stopped to say —
Chorus
You're enough, man You were always enough Not the version that never breaks down Not the version that's impossibly tough Just this version — the tired, the trying The laughing-through-it, the quietly crying You don't have to be more than you are — You were always, always enough
Verse 2
Hey, I know they taught you love was conditional That safety meant performing the invincible That asking for help was the same thing as losing That needing someone was the same as being useless But I'm here to tell you everything they missed — The bravest thing you'll do is just exist Not perform, not provide, not push through — just be — Man, that was always enough for me
Bridge
To the boy who was told to be braver — You were brave To the son who was never told I love you — You were loved To the man who's been running on empty — You can rest To every single one of us who believed We had to earn the right to just exist —
Final Chorus
You were enough You ARE enough God, you were always — ENOUGH! You were always enough, man You were always enough They just never told you But I'm telling you now You were always enough, man Enough to feel, enough to heal Enough to be the man who finally knows he's enough
Verse 1
I cried at the movie, I'll cry at another I call my friends and I tell them I love them I buy myself flowers when the week's been rough I know my feelings and I call their bluff I'm not performing tough for the room anymore Left that costume at somebody else's door Took me long enough but here I am — The softest, realest version of a man
Pre-Chorus
They said toughen up, said don't be weak Said real men don't wear their heart on their sleeve But my heart on my sleeve is the best thing I've got — And I'm wearing it out, like it or not
Chorus
I'm a soft boy, yeah I said it Gentle hands and I don't regret it Crying at the sunrise, loving out loud Soft boy — standing in the crowd Unashamed, unbothered, unafraid This the realest thing I've ever made You want a revolution? Here it is — A man who knows exactly what love is
Verse 2
I write letters, I pick up the phone I check in on my people so they don't feel alone I say I'm scared when I'm scared, I'm hurt when I hurt Turns out vulnerability isn't a curse My grandfather worked himself down to the bone Never said I love you, died mostly alone I love you, I love you — I'll say it all day — I refuse to let love go that way
Bridge
Soft is not the opposite of strong Soft is what you are when you've been strong too long And finally — finally — put it down Soft is the bravest thing I've found So yeah — I'm soft And I'm good with that Come and find me when you're ready I'll be right here
Final Chorus
Soft boy — yeah and I mean it Most alive I've ever been it Dancing in the kitchen, loving out loud SOFT BOY — proudest in the crowd Unashamed, unbothered, set free This is everything I was born to be You want a revolution? Here I am — The softest, strongest version of a man!
Outro
Soft boy... soft boy... (laughing) Yeah, that's me That's me