Okay, Maybe

I thought your silence meant

You wanted me away

I thought the way you looked at me

Was everything you wouldn’t say

So I stopped trying to ask

I let the distance stay

It seemed so easy to believe

I knew you anyway

But when the voices turned on me

You didn’t turn away

You stood beside me quietly

Like there was nothing else to say

Okay, maybe

I didn’t see you right

Maybe there was something softer

Hidden out of sight

Okay, maybe

I listened to my doubts

And filled your every silence

With things you never thought about

Maybe I was certain

A little too early

Maybe there’s more to you

Than what I thought I could see

Okay…

Maybe

You didn’t ask for thanks

You didn’t stay too near

You acted like defending me

Was simple, almost clear

And I keep thinking back

To everything before

The moments I called coldness

Might have been something more

Maybe you never pushed me out

Maybe I stepped away

Maybe I heard a meaning

In the words you didn’t say

Okay, maybe

I didn’t see you right

Maybe quiet isn’t empty

Maybe distance isn’t spite

Okay, maybe

There’s something I mistook

Maybe I was reading you

Before I learned to look

And I don’t know you

Not really, not yet

But maybe I was wrong

About the person that I met

Okay…

Maybe

I don’t know what you’re thinking

When you’re staring at the road

I don’t know why you carry

Everything alone

But maybe I don’t need

To understand you all at once

Maybe I can leave a little room

For everything I don’t know

Okay, maybe

I judged you much too soon

Maybe there are things about you

I never gave the chance to bloom

Okay, maybe

I’ll listen differently

Maybe next time you go quiet

I won’t decide what it must mean

I’m not saying

I know who you are

Only that now…

I’d like to

Okay…

Maybe