Half Here

[Intro ] Phone light Gray blinds Mouth dry No time [Verse 1] Floor cold under one bare foot Shirt from last night still sour in the sleeve Water in the glass gone flat by the bed A name in my head I don’t want to read The room is awake before I am The pipes knock once in the wall And I stand there long enough to know Something made it home But not all of me [Pre-Chorus] Half here Half smoke Half some version of a joke That stopped being funny in the dark [Chorus] Half here That’s what the morning gets Half here And the rest won’t answer yet Half here Hands, face, pulse, routine Just enough of me To pass through the day unseen [Verse 2] Coffee in a paper cup tastes burnt Mirror gives me back a workable lie Keys in my hand, jaw set clean Like the body still remembers how to drive There’s a way the day keeps moving Even when the self stays thin A way the mouth can say the right things While the center doesn’t clock in And no one knows Because no one can If the skin still holds And the eyes don’t crack [Pre-Chorus] Half here Half numb Half listening for what I’ve done In the static of the blood [Chorus] Half here That’s what the morning gets Half here And the rest won’t answer yet Half here Hands, face, pulse, routine Just enough of me To pass through the day unseen [Bridge] Don’t ask me what I said Don’t ask me who I touched Don’t ask me what still lingers In the breath, in the cuffs Just let the hour Move through me Like I’m still somebody It can use [Final Chorus] Half here That’s what the daylight keeps Half here And the rest stays out of reach Half here No wreck, no grace, no clean release Just enough of me To keep the machine from stopping [Outro] Phone light Gray blinds Mouth dry No time