First Meet

[Verse 1] You dropped your book beside the window seat I caught the pages before they touched the floor You laughed and said you always rush your feet I said I hoped you'd drop a few more The café closed, but neither one moved on We traded stories over cooling tea You had a train that left at half past dawn I had no reason not to wait and see [Pre-Chorus] A week became a habit at the corner table Your name began to feel like something stable [Chorus] First it was a borrowed pen, then a walk around the block Then your hand found mine at ten past six o'clock We were learning every small detail we could keep The way you take your coffee, the promises you sleep Somewhere between hello and don't go home yet I found a feeling I could not forget [Verse 2] You showed me photographs from your hometown A blue door, a summer garden, your old dog I told you why I never settled down You listened like my silence was a song Rain kept us beneath the laundromat awning You brushed a drop of water from my cheek The whole wide world was busy carrying on While you and I forgot how to speak [Pre-Chorus] The evening train was calling from the station But neither heart was ready for departure [Chorus] First it was a borrowed pen, then a walk around the block Then your hand found mine at ten past six o'clock We were learning every small detail we could keep The way you take your coffee, the promises you sleep Somewhere between hello and don't go home yet I found a feeling I could not forget [Bridge] Maybe love arrives without a warning Not with fireworks, but quietly, one morning In the space where your shoulder meets mine In the courage to say, stay a little longer this time [Final Chorus] Now it's every borrowed hour, every road we choose Two separate lives with nothing left to lose Still learning every small detail by heart How a simple meeting can become a start Somewhere between hello and don't go home yet We found a future neither one expected And if you ask me when it all began It was your hand reaching for mine again [Outro] Your hand reaching for mine again And I stayed