The things I said
The things you said
Taken alone
They're sharp as knives
A page torn out
From different books
A story nobody likes
But put them all together
And suddenly it's strange
A romantic comedy
Playing in the rain
We weren't villains
We weren't saints
Just two hearts
Calling out in pain
Don't zoom in so close
You'll miss the whole sky
We were only saying
"I hurt"
In a thousand different ways
That's why
I couldn't see you
And you couldn't see me
We were standing face to face
Lost in our own storms
You thought I didn't care
I thought you'd given up
We built our little walls
And called them love
The silence grew
The distance grew
The shadows filled the room
But looking back now
It's almost funny
How much we wanted to be understood
Don't zoom in so close
You'll miss the whole sky
We were only saying
"I hurt"
In a thousand different ways
That's why
I couldn't see you
And you couldn't see me
We were drowning in our echoes
Trying to stay afloat
Maybe the fight
Was never the story
Maybe the story
Was two scared people
Holding broken umbrellas
In the same storm
So don't zoom in so close
The picture changes when you step away
What looked like cruelty
Was mostly fear
What looked like distance
Was longing in disguise
You were hurting
I was hurting
That's all
That's all
And somehow
It's still a beautiful story
