[Verse 1 — His voice]
Eleven years stacked like plates in the sink
Six of them married, we promised the moon
You stopped greeting me at the kitchen door
Left me the remote and the evening strewn
The calendar shows a date I missed once more
Your lipstick on a cup I never washed clean
A suitcase by the hallway, zipped but not gone
Small honest things that turned the loudest between
[Pre-Chorus — His voice]
You say you don't feel loved when nights go numb
I say I don't feel chosen when "we" becomes "I'm done"
We learned to breathe around the silence we shared
Till the air turned thin enough to break
[Chorus]
Our wedding song skips on the chorus now
Your coffee cup still stained at the rim
We say goodbye in ways we can't allow
Shadows of us where the light grows dim
Our wedding song skips on the chorus now
The photograph blinks like a fault-line thin
We keep the motion but forget the how
Shadows of us where the light grows dim
[Verse 2 — Her voice]
I kept our birthdays in the notes of my phone
You called me "love" like a word you couldn't own
I learned to be brave in your quiet rooms
Left dinners half-heated, promises in tombs
You counted what I missed and not what I gave
I counted empty chairs where I gave my name
I wanted to be chosen more than being right
Wanted morning words that said we'd try again
[Pre-Chorus — Her voice]
You say you were lonely, but I felt left out too
I wanted small fierce signs that you'd still choose
We whispered apologies like they were a cure
Till even sorry stopped meaning much
[Chorus]
Our wedding song skips on the chorus now
Your coffee cup still stained at the rim
We say goodbye in ways we can't allow
Shadows of us where the light grows dim
Our wedding song skips on the chorus now
The photograph blinks like a fault-line thin
We keep the motion but forget the how
Shadows of us where the light grows dim
[Bridge — duet]
I loved you, but I stopped calling you mine
You loved me, then kept score instead of time
We traded names for reasons and for pride
Built a distance that neither one could hide
Do you remember the night the record froze?
You laughed and I cried and both of us chose
To step back slow, then to step back some more
And the small things closed like a slammed door
[Final Chorus — duet]
Our wedding song skips on the chorus now
Your coffee cup sits empty on the sill
We speak the kindness of two people bowed
Shadows of us, but the silence is real
Our wedding song skips on the chorus now
I press my palm to where the melody thinned
We move apart with the grace of knowing how
Shadows of us where the light grows dim
[Outro]
The coffee cup is empty by the sink
A little ring of lipstick, a little ring of us
We leave the song to skip and learn to sink
Into new mornings, into lives less hush
In the quiet I keep your laugh like a hymn
And the coffee cup reminds me how we were dim
