[Verse 1] Tuesday night, two plates out, one of them barely touched, Four years back we finished each other's sentences so much, Now you're reading something heavy about the ocean floor, I'm three episodes deep in a show you called a bore, Used to split one basket of fries without a word, Now I order different and it still feels absurd, Same booth, same waitress, same cracked vinyl seat, Two different people wearing love like borrowed coats that used to fit, Your playlist moved on, mine stuck in 2019, Not a crime, not a fight, just a slow quiet machine. [Chorus] We didn't break, we just grew different ways, Still love you, love you from a whole new place, Two trees, one root, bending toward different windows, Still love you, love you, even saying goodnight. [Verse 2] So I started something, not a fix, just a record, Burned you a playlist of what I'm learning, titled it "Current", Ten tracks for the stranger you're turning into next to me, Not asking you to stay the person that you used to be, My friend Dana calls hers a breakup mixtape, still friendly, still close, Said it let her grieve the couple without losing the folks, So Sunday morning, coffee, I hand you the headphones, You hand me yours, we sit there in our separate zones, Track three made you cry, track seven made me laugh, Maybe this is the bridge, maybe this is the aftermath, Either way we're learning each other out loud, Beats more honest than pretending we're still one crowd. [Bridge] Some nights I miss the one who could finish my thought, Grieving someone who technically isn't gone, No lesson fixes missing somebody sitting right there, Love and goodbye sometimes wearing the same worn pair of shoes. [Chorus] We didn't break, we just grew different ways, Still love you, love you from a whole new place, Two trees, one root, bending toward different windows, Still love you, love you, even saying goodnight. [Verse 3] Our friends keep asking what happened, like something has to break, I tell them nothing happened, we just woke up, wide awake, My mother asks if we're okay, I say we're okay different, She doesn't understand it, keeps asking who's the villain, There's no villain here, no slammed door, no big dramatic scene, Just two people studying maps of who they're gonna be, Maybe next year you're in some city I can't picture, Maybe I'm somewhere green, chasing some old fixture, But right now we're still here, choosing this, choosing honest, Not every ending has to look like wreckage on the promise, Some loves just widen out until they finally fit The whole wide shape of who we're becoming, bit by bit. [Chorus] We didn't break, we just grew different ways, Still love you, love you from a whole new place, Two trees, one root, bending toward different windows, Still love you, love you, even saying goodnight.
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