Late April (I Still Love You) (Verse 1) I met you on a screen, just a digital face One more Tinder profile in an empty space But late April was blooming, the air was turning sweet When we pulled into our spots and stepped out on the street You parked at the same time, looked right and said my name I looked back and said yours—it didn’t feel the same As anything before it. I felt your gentleness A quiet kind of warmth amidst the winter’s mess (Pre-Chorus) We sat in the coffee shop, talking ourselves into view Then walked for an hour just to stay next to you (Chorus) And I fell like it was easy, like I’d finally arrived Like something in your eyes brought me back to life You felt like forever in a moment so new Like the rest of my life was waiting with you And I loved you in a way I couldn’t undo Even now… I still do (Verse 2) Rummy on the weekends, cribbage on the floor Cooking in the kitchen, always wanting more You listened like it mattered, like I was worth the time And I let myself believe it was a different kind But something quiet shifted, something I couldn’t name Like a shadow moving underneath the flame It didn’t show at first, it never really does Just a softness turning into something it was (Pre-Chorus) And I tried to hold the version I first knew While something in me whispered, this isn’t new (Chorus) And I fell like it was easy, like I’d finally arrived Like something in your arms made everything align You felt like forever in a moment so true Like the rest of my life was waiting with you And I loved you in a way I couldn’t undo Even now… I still do (Bridge — pattern + addiction realization) It’s always hidden in the beginning light Wrapped up in warmth, dressed up as right A slow kind of slipping you don’t see at first Till love starts feeling like a quiet kind of thirst And I know this pattern, I know it too well The way I mistake comfort for something that swells From somewhere behind me, from somewhere before A love I keep choosing that asks me for more I swore I was different, I swore I had grown But something in me still feels like home In the kind of love that I have to survive Instead of the kind where I’m simply alive (Final Chorus) And I love you like forever, that part won’t change Even walking away, even knowing the pain You felt like my future, you felt like my truth But I can’t lose myself trying to hold onto you So I’m letting you go, even though it’s not what I’d choose And I’ll love you for the rest of my life… Just not the way I used to (Outro) Late April still lives in the back of my mind Where everything in me believed in the time We stepped out of our cars, said each other’s names And for one perfect moment… nothing was wrong