the line

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[INTRO | CLOSE VOCAL, SOFT PIANO] [BG VOX:] oh eh oh eh [VERSE 1] something started feeling different little distances appeared i could hear it in the answers i could feel it getting near so i learned to read the silence then pretend i read it wrong every part of me was frightened every part still holding on [CHORUS] and once the line was crossed [BG VOX:] oh eh there was nothing left to say i knew it in my body before i knew the way [INSTRUMENTAL | PIANO, DISTANT GUITAR] [VERSE 2] i kept finding better versions of the things i could have done gave you room when you were leaving moved towards you when you’d gone i made changes without asking if the changing should be mine thought if i could love this better we could pull it back in time [BUILD | LOW DRUM ENTERS] and for a while i nearly believed it you came closer i let you in we had something we could still save and i believed you when you said— [BREAK | SILENCE] [VERSE 3 | CLOSE VOCAL] then you did the one thing we could never take away not a fight not a bad night something neither time nor trying could persuade me to unsee [CHORUS | FULL] and once the line was crossed [BG VOX:] oh eh there was nothing left to say i knew it in my body before i knew the way [BRIDGE | VOCAL FORWARD] and that’s the part that stays with me i would have tried i was still trying there were places left to go there were versions left of us until you made the last one impossible [FINAL CHORUS | WIDE, THEN FALLING AWAY] and once the line was crossed [BG VOX:] oh eh there was nothing left to say i knew it in my body before i knew the way [BG VOX:] oh eh oh eh [LEAD:] i knew it in my body before i knew the way [OUTRO | PIANO ONLY] all that trying all that way and once the line was crossed [BG VOX:] oh eh there was nothing left to say