Almost, But Not Quite

You leave your coat beside the door / Like you've been here a hundred times / We talk about the train at four / Then lose the subject halfway through the line / You laugh and look down at your hands / I reach for something safe to say / The room has somehow made a plan / To keep the two of us this way / You know the coffee that I take / I know the song that makes you smile / We make a joke of our mistakes / Then let the quiet linger for a while / Your phone lights up, you turn it down / I catch the question in your face / We could go walking through the town / Or let another good hour go to waste / Maybe we're waiting for a perfect cue / A little permission to make something new / But love doesn't always arrive with a plan / Sometimes it looks like your hand near my hand / Almost, but not quite / Close enough to feel / Almost, but not quite / Too careful to call it real / If you want me, don't make me guess / If I want you, I should say it too / We're getting very good at nothing / When there's something here between me and you / Almost, but not quite / (come a little closer) / Almost, but not quite / I think we both know why / (Maybe tonight) / (Maybe tonight)