Hold Me Over the Line

Intro

mm-mm, mm-mm (oh)

soft like the rain on my window, yeah

Verse

You answer at three with a laugh that sounds close

but your street is miles of quiet I can almost trace

I sketch the shape of your hoodie on my phone

and press my thumb where your name used to stay

There’s a coffee stain on the sleeve of an old T-shirt

I keep it like a secret that I can’t return

We trade the small confessions through a cracked screen

and I count syllables until the daylight burns

Pre-chorus

I keep replaying the way you say my name (my name)

like it could pull me through the map and the planes

and maybe I’m selfish, maybe I’m scared

that love across a line is thinned out air

Chorus

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line (hold me)

Hold me in the blue glow when the night unwinds (oh-oh)

Tell me that you miss me like you used to do (yeah)

Tell me what to believe, I’ll believe in you

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line (mm-mm)

Verse

You say there’s sunlight where you are, I close my eyes

and pretend that same sun folds across my face

I hum the song we learned, the one with two chords

and wish my wooden floor could echo your escape

You leave little landmarks in the corners of your words

a promise, a joke, a plan we never made

I tuck them into pockets of a suitcase made of songs

and wait for the day you find your way back from the waves

Pre-chorus

The call drops low and then it rises up again (again)

like a tide that remembers how to touch the sand

I don’t want to be the kind of love that fades

into voicemail mornings and half-written plans

Chorus

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line (hold me)

Hold me in the blue glow when the night unwinds (oh-oh)

Tell me that you miss me like you used to do (yeah)

Tell me what to believe, I’ll believe in you

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line (mm-mm)

Bridge

Maybe distance is a classroom where we learn to wait

or a slow-burning map that teaches how to navigate (navigate)

I fold my hands around the little truths you send

and practice saying love across the wire again

oh-oh, say it soft, say it soft (say it)

Chorus

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line (hold me)

Hold me in the blue glow when the night unwinds (hold me)

Tell me that you miss me like you used to do (tell me)

Tell me what to believe, I’ll believe in you

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line

Hold me over the phone, hold me over the line (mm-mm)

Outro

mm-mm (oh)

soft like the rain on my window

hold me over the line (hold me)