How do I keep you warm

[Verse 1]
I keep a list of names beside the kitchen sink
A chipped blue mug, a note in somebody’s ink
You call me when the floor gives way beneath your feet
I bring what I can carry, leave my shoes out in the street

I patch the seams with borrowed thread and careful hands
Say, “Take your time; I know the shape of where you stand”
Then walk back home with every doorway in my chest
And nowhere left inside myself to come to rest

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought a heart could stretch and never split
I thought that love was measured by the lives I could repair
But every room I open asks for more of it
And I’m still standing in the doorway, disappearing there

[Chorus]
I want to mend every break, give every heart its due
But the more I make room, the less room I have to move
I gather all the pieces, then I come apart alone
How do I keep you warm and still come home?

[Verse 2]
Your sister’s on the phone; the rent is late again
My oldest friend can’t sleep; I count the hours with him
I learn the little signs before you say you’re not okay
Then swallow my own sentence so yours has space to stay

There’s a chair beside the window with my coat across the back
A book I meant to finish, unopened, gathering dust
You ask me if I’m tired; I smile and say, “Not yet”
The hardest truth to tell is one I haven’t told myself

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought that care could make a body wide enough
To hold a dozen storms and still be standing there
But love is not a promise to be endlessly enough
And I can’t heal you by pretending I’m not here

[Chorus]
I want to mend every break, give every heart its due
But the more I make room, the less room I have to move
I gather all the pieces, then I come apart alone
How do I keep you warm and still come home?

[Bridge]
Let me set one burden down beside the door
Not because I love you less than I did before
I can sit beside you; I can tell the truth
I am not the only shelter you can turn to

[Final Chorus]
I want to mend every break, but I can’t do it all
I’ll meet you where you are; I won’t pretend I never fall
We gather up the pieces, leave some room for us to grow
I can love you deeply and still come home

[Outro]
The blue mug waits beside the sink
I take one breath before I speak
I’m here, I’m here—
And I am here for me