Fell Away

You stopped sending pictures of your coffee / I stopped asking how your week had been / We used to make a joke out of the nothing / Now I don't know where to even begin / Your birthday showed up on my calendar / I typed three different things to say / I picked the safest one at midnight / You answered with a heart the next day / I heard you moved across the river / From somebody we both used to know / I thought about asking for the address / Then decided I was better off not knowing / There was no slammed door / No final scene / No one said, Don't call me / No one said anything / We didn't fall out / We just fell away / A little less talking / A little more space / We didn't fall out / There was nobody to blame / You became somebody I used to call / And I became somebody you don't / I saw your sister at the grocery store / She asked if I'd been keeping well / I said, Yeah, I'm good, how's everybody? / She said, You know, you should call / I laughed because she didn't know / We hadn't spoken since July / She gave me that familiar look / Like she could see me trying to lie / There was a photo from our college days / Buried in my phone last week / You were holding up a cheap red drink / And laughing at something I can't read / There was no bad blood / No final scene / Just fewer reasons / To know what you mean / We didn't fall out / We just fell away / A little less talking / A little more space / We didn't fall out / There was nobody to blame / You became somebody I used to call / And I became somebody you don't / I saw you last Saturday / Outside the pharmacy / You were carrying two paper bags / And looking at your phone / For half a second / I thought you'd look up / I wondered if you'd recognize me / Before I recognized myself / I could've waved / You could've waved / We both looked somewhere else / Maybe that's what growing up is / Not knowing when it happened / We didn't fall out / We just fell away / No villain, no ending / No words we could save / We didn't fall out / And that's the hardest part / You can lose somebody slowly / Without knowing when it starts / We didn't fall out / We just fell away / I hope you're doing alright / I almost said your name / Your birthday's on my calendar / I never deleted it / I probably won't