Dining on the Dying Vine - A2

Verse 1

You said… and said… and implied
I was killing the friendship
Too quiet, too slow to reply
Every silence slammed another jail door shut
Every pause another crime

I just got married
Life keeps pulling at my sleeve
Some promises had to come first
Some vows changed how I spent my days
You wanted every corner of my daylight
There just wasn’t that much left of me

And I could feel your fear beneath it all
That someday I’d disappear
A family, a child, a changing world
Would leave you standing on the corner of nowhere

Pre-Chorus

I’m nodding my head while I’m losing my mind
Searching for a period I’ll never find
You’re spinning a web of “he said, she said”
I’m already halfway gone instead

Chorus

You’re dining on the dying vine
Trying to drink what’s left of my daylight
Every conversation turns into a trial
Every accusation just widens the divide

You say I’m killing what we had
But your grief became a heavy ask
A heavy ask for a heart running thin
Where do you end…where do I begin?

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Verse 2

Your letter was a masterclass
In how I’d crossed every line
Every word assigned an evil motive
To a heart that wasn’t trying

I never came with sharpened knives
No hidden war beneath my skin
But you’ve tattooed me with intention
Like guilt was always sewn within

I’m staring at the energy you spent
Trying to decode every breath
It’s Shakespeare trapped inside an algorithm
Arguing itself to death

Pre-Chorus

I’m nodding my head while I’m losing my mind
Searching for a period I’ll never find
There’s no appeal, there’s no defense
Just another bludgeoning
sentence after sentence

Chorus

You’re dining on a dying vine
Trying to resurrect what’s died
Holding tighter only makes it fade
Love can’t survive a courtroom heart

You call it fighting for a friend
I call it spear-fishing for the end
You’re a heavy ask for hearts already thin
Where do you end…where do I begin?

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Bridge

Dining on the dying vine…
There’s nothing left for either of us to find

People come for a reason
Some stay for a season
Some chapters close before we’re ready

Maybe love isn’t always holding on
Maybe love knows when to let go

I hope you find the friend you’re searching for
I just can’t keep failing you anymore

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Final Chorus

We’d been dining on the dying vine
Looking for a fault that’s mine
But every page you handed me
Just buried what was left to see

You said I was killing the friendship

Maybe…

It had already died

And neither one of us

Could say goodbye.

Outro

I’m done searching…

for a period.

You finally…

gave me one.