(Intro- spoken word)

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Don’t hang up yet

I’m not finished

(Verse 1)

You said call me if it matters

So I called you twice for fun

Let it ring into the wallpaper

Watched the seconds come undone

There’s a rhythm in your absence

Like a train I nearly caught

Like the number that I memorised

But somehow still forgot

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Pause

Three, two, one

You were always halfway gone

(Prе Chorus)

And I know the script by heart now

Wherе I laugh at the wrong time

(Chorus)

Dial tone

Dial tone

Give me something human

Static in the middle like a joke I’ve overruined

You pick up just to prove that you don’t need to stay

Then you breathe like you might then you throw it all away

(Refrain)

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Say my name like a mistake

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How much silence can you take?

(Verse 2)

There’s a stutter in the story

When you say you’re doing fine

Like you practised in the mirror

Just to get the timing right

And I answer like a stranger

Who’s been living in your mouth

Every word a little further

From the truth we left down south

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Hold

Don’t speak yet

We’re not finished being upset

(Pre Chorus)

And you laugh like it’s a reflex

Like you’ve nothing left to lose

(Chorus)

Dial tone

Dial tone

Something almost said

Hanging in the wires like a thought inside your head

You stay just long enough to make it feel okay

Then you cut me at the chorus when I’m leaning in to stay

(Refrain)

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Say my name like it’s too late

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Was I ever worth the wait?

(Bridge)

If I call it what it is will you vanish?

If I don’t

Will you stay?

Is this love or just a habit

We’ve been living

By the day?

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I could hang up

But I wait

(Chorus)

Dial tone

Dial tone

Something almost real

Buried in the pauses neither one of us can feel

You pick up just to prove you’ve still got the control

Then you leave me in the echo like a voice without a soul

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Don’t you dare to hesitate

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I’m still here

Just recalibrate

(Outro)

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You there?