Don't Have the Power
Verse 1
Male V.
Another hour on the blacktop, burning gas to get to you.
Female V.
Another joke that doesn’t land, you never saw it as a shield.
Male V.
I hear “How cute you think we’re exclusive” in everything you do.
Female V.
I said “So many guys come over,” did you really think that was real?
Male V.
You built the static in the spring and then the fall.
Female V.
I only built the silence, I only built a wall.
Male V.
I kept on driving through it, waiting for your call.
Female V.
And I was waiting for you to see through it at all.
Chorus
Female V.
You asked me for a few more days!
Male V.
You couldn’t wait another minute!
Male & Female V.
You sent the text and slammed the gate!
Female V.
I heard the doubt inside your voice!
Male V.
You didn’t even let me in it!
Male & Female V.
You made my choice, you made my choice!
Male V.
I read the screen on Yom K. eve, a sentence clean and practiced.
Female V.
And told myself you’d already decided what your answer was.
Verse 2
Male V.
Remember finding presents I hid around your living room?
Female V.
You told me that I did deserve it, chased away the gloom.
Male V.
That was the one day I believed I’d finally gotten through.
Female V.
That was the one day I believed I saw the real, true you.
Male V.
I saw you let your walls come down, I saw you finally breathe.
Female V.
And then you asked your question, and felt you start to leave.
Male V.
So how could you forget that day, go back on every word?
Female V.
How could you hesitate and think you wouldn’t be heard?
Chorus
Female V.
You asked me for a few more days!
Male V.
You couldn’t wait another minute!
Male & Female V.
You sent the text and slammed the gate!
Female V.
I heard the doubt inside your voice!
Male V.
You didn’t even let me in it!
Male & Female V.
You made my choice, you made my choice!
Male V.
I read the screen on Yom K. eve, a sentence clean and practiced.
Female V.
And told myself you’d already decided what your answer was.
Bridge
Male V.
Four days to let my brain catch up, four days to trust the turn.
Four days you told me not to want this, a lesson I had to unlearn.
Female V.
I asked you with my heart laid bare and all I heard was empty air.
A history of being left, I couldn’t stand the waiting there.
Male V.
I booked a zimmer for the weekend, I found a track where you could drive.
I had a race car waiting for you, to make you feel alive.
My answer was already yes, my answer was always yes, do you hear me?
Female V.
Your silence felt like no, your silence was no, it’s all that you would let me see.
Male V.
You didn't lose me 'cause I didn't want you.
Female V.
I only lost what I couldn’t have.
Male & Female V.
We lost it all in the misunderstanding.
Final Chorus
Female V.
I should have given you those days!
Male V.
You shouldn't have been in such a minute!
Male & Female V.
Before you sent the text and slammed the gate!
Female V.
I should have trusted something more than just my voice!
Male V.
You never let me get back in it!
Male & Female V.
You made my choice, you made my choice!
Male V.
And when I read your final words, before I made it something grand…
Female V.
I didn't know about the plans you'd made…
Male V.
My first real thought, I swear to god…
Male & Female V.
I just don't have the power for this drama in my hand.