Halfway to Your Heart

[Intro]
Yeah
You know that look
When somebody live in your mind
But you just renting space in theirs

[Verse 1]
You pour your secrets in my cup
I pour my time in your hands
You say you’re broken from the last one
I volunteer to understand
Scroll through your pictures at midnight
Heart doing laps for a “seen”
You hit me back with a heart emoji
On something I didn’t mean
We share fries at the diner
Steam fogs up the glass
You vent about another man
I laugh, pretend I’m past
Every joke I throw, you catch
Every hint, you drop
I keep rehearsing “I love you”
Soon as you call, I stop

[Chorus]
I’m halfway to your heart
But you don’t drive this road
I built a house inside that smile
But I still feel like a ghost
You lean on me when you fall apart
Then run back into his arms
I’m standing here in the dark
Still halfway to your heart

[Verse 2]
You say, “You’re perfect, just bad timing”
I say, “Yeah, maybe that’s true”
Got perfect attendance in your problems
But no degree in “me and you”
You drunk-text asking where I’m at
I’m outside, engine warm
You sleep safe in the passenger seat
Dreaming ’bout a different storm
You dab my collar with perfume
Laugh, say, “We’d be a mess”
I say, “We already are one”
You just refuse the test
I pray one day you’ll see me
Not the mirror of your pain
Till then I’m building bridges
Over rivers that don’t know my name

[Chorus]
I’m halfway to your heart
But you don’t drive this road
I built a house inside that smile
But I still feel like a ghost
You lean on me when you fall apart
Then run back into his arms
I’m standing here in the dark
Still halfway to your heart

[Bridge]
[Jazz Vocal Solo – female, smoky, improvising “ooh”s, “mmm”s and scat over the chords, band drops to bass, Rhodes, soft rimshots]

[Verse 3]
Funny how you hate your body
But you weaponize your eyes
Turn the room into confession
Make a faith out of your lies
You say love feel like a prison
I’m here picking every lock
But you chase the ones who chain you
Throw the key into the clock
I practice letting go in drafts
Never hit “send,” I erase
I’m the song stuck in your playlist
You skip when you changing pace
If happiness your language
I’m fluent, line for line
But you keep reading subtitles
In a script that isn’t mine

[Chorus]
I’m halfway to your heart
But you don’t drive this road
I built a house inside that smile
But I still feel like a ghost
You lean on me when you fall apart
Then run back into his arms
I’m standing here in the dark
Still halfway to your heart

[Outro]
Yeah
If loving you a crime
Guess I’m serving time
In a cell made of “almost”
Parole on “you’ll be fine”