We Can’t Leave Each Other

[Verse 1]

He keeps her number under “Do Not Call”

Still knows the shape of every digit

She drives past his place, slows at the hall

Like leaving was a promise neither finished

He pours one more where the kitchen light burns

Tells the empty chair he’s doing fine

She sleeps beside a man who takes her home

But reaches for a hand that isn’t mine

[Chorus]

We can’t leave each other alone

Like a match that refuses the rain

He drinks to forget what we were

She finds somebody else for the same

Every goodbye gets pulled apart

Every door leaves a crack in the frame

We can’t leave each other alone

But we don’t know how to stay

[Verse 2]

Her new man asks why she’s quiet at dinner

She says the day just took too much

He doesn’t know she keeps my old sweatshirt

Folded underneath the clothes he bought

I wake up with a bottle on the floor

And her last voicemail in my head

She says, “I hope you’re finally getting better”

Then calls again before the words have ended

[Chorus]

We can’t leave each other alone

Like a match that refuses the rain

He drinks to forget what we were

She finds somebody else for the same

Every goodbye gets pulled apart

Every door leaves a crack in the frame

We can’t leave each other alone

But we don’t know how to stay

[Bridge]

Maybe I’m the hurt she keeps returning to

Maybe he’s the silence she can’t stand

She holds him close to make me disappear

I hold the glass like it can bring her back again

[Final Chorus]

We can’t leave each other alone

Two wrong turns wearing out the same road

He drinks when the memory comes

She leans on a stranger to carry the load

If love is a fire, ours won’t die

It only learns a different kind of flame

We can’t leave each other alone

And we don’t know how to stay

[Outro]

Her number sleeps beneath “Do Not Call”

His bottle waits beside the bed

Two people walking away for years

Still meeting in everything unsaid