Falling Slowly Silent

I don’t need you to love me loudly

I don’t need a diamond ring

I don’t need forever promises

Or grand romantic things

Just send a little “thinking of you”

Somewhere between morning and night

So I know that I still cross your mind

When I’m nowhere in your sight

You used to call me gorgeous

Like you couldn’t help but say it

Now I search my memory

For the last time that you did

And I’m not asking for the world

I’m only asking for your hand

How can somebody hold your heart

And never reach for it again?

So I stopped asking where you are

Stopped asking where I stand

Stopped reaching in the darkness

Stopped reaching for your hand

‘Cause somewhere along the way

I learned what needing you could cost

I’d rather quietly disappear

Than make you feel I’m asking too much

I just need you to miss me

Just once a day

One little message

To tell me I’m okay

A kiss in the hallway

Your hand at my waist

Tell me I’m beautiful When you look at my face I don’t

need forever

I don’t need much at all

Just give me something small enough To know you won’t let me

fall

I just need to feel I’m wanted

When you don’t need anything from me

I just need to know

There’s still a little piece of you That reaches back for me

You don’t know how loud it gets

Inside a room where no one speaks

How every inch of distance

Feels like something wrong with me

I watch you walk right past me

And pretend I didn’t notice Then spend the rest

of the night

Wondering when I became invisible

Maybe you’re tired

Maybe you’re busy

Maybe I’m asking too much

So I keep making excuses

For the absence of your touch

And I tell myself tomorrow

You’ll remember how it feels

To look at me like you love me

To make this loneliness unreal

Maybe tomorrow you’ll notice.

Maybe tomorrow you’ll reach.

Maybe tomorrow

I’ll finally feel

Like I’m still something

You want to keep