Numbers I Never Deleted

Paroles de « Numbers I Never Deleted »

Verse

Two in the morning, thumb across the glass,
scrolling down a list of people I let pass.
There's Danny with the boat, there's Danny with the truck,
I never merged them, never had the luck.
There's a landline in there nobody picks up,
a kitchen on Saint Anne with a yellow phone.
I know the ring, I know the four short steps,
I know the hands that hung it back at home.
I don't press call. I hold it and I know
every one of these by heart, and let it go.

Verse

Marie-Josée, last texted March of nine,
"drive safe, it's black ice past the county line."
I never answered. Now the message sits
like a coat somebody left across a chair.
There's a man I owed a tank of gas last fall,
there's a number saved as DO NOT, and no name.
I could recite them like a hymn I half-forgot,
the area code, the way the sevens knot.
Down the hall the fridge kicks on and hums,
and something orange breathes behind my door.

Pre-Chorus

I'm not lonely. I'm just fluent
in a language nobody speaks to me now.

Chorus

Numbers I never deleted,
names I can't call,
I know them all,
I know them all.

Chorus

Numbers I never deleted,
names I can't call,
I know them all,
I know them all.

Outro

Two-fifteen. The screen goes dark.
He's still waiting. He's still waiting.
Two-fifteen. The screen goes dark.
Somebody in this house
has nothing left to forgive.