Latent Heat

[Verse 1]
The condensation on the third-floor glass of your Clark Street flat,
I hold the heat of your breath from where you both just sat.
The radiator hisses a code you won't translate,
A Tuesday night in February, getting much too late.

[Chorus]
And every word you didn't say
Draws a river down my face.
I'm the load-bearing quiet, the tensile strength of space.

[Verse 2]
I remember August, the window fan stuck on high,
You traced her name right here against the humid sky.
"'It's just the building settling,' you told her last July."
You used to think those groaning sounds weren't a way to lie.

[Chorus]
And every word you didn't say
Draws a river down my face.
I'm the load-bearing quiet, the tensile strength of space.

[Bridge]
Go on and break me.
One fist, one whispered name, just set the pressure free.

[Outro]
The moisture on the failed thermal seal, a city light diffused,
Another hairline crack in the blueprint you misused.