Love Collapse

(soft hum)

The way you look past me now...

You still reach for my hand in your sleep

But awake, your eyes dey drift somewhere far

I dey count the seconds before you speak

Each silence don become scar

We still dey share this bed, same pillow

But the space between us don grow wide

I fit see the end from this window

Still I dey hold you, though you don already slide

Love collapse, no warning sign

Just small things wey dey fade with time

The way you no reach back when I call your name

The way "I love you" don begin sound like shame

Collapse... ah-ah

Collapse... slowly

Your laughter don turn mechanical now

Like you dey rehearse wetin to feel

We dey argue 'bout plates for the sink somehow

But the real wound, we no fit reveal

I remember when you fit read my silence

Now you no dey even try to decode

Your absence dey loud even with your presence

I don tire to dey carry this load

Love collapse, no warning sign

Just small things wey dey fade with time

The way you turn your body when we sleep at night

The way you say "we're fine" but your eyes no lie

Collapse... hah

Collapse... slowly

(whispered)

I pack my things when you dey shower

Left my key for the table, no letter

Because wetin I go write?

"Sorry say we don fade?"

"Sorry say holding on don hurt pass letting go?"

Now I dey this empty flat, echoes everywhere

Your ghost dey every corner, every chair

Freedom wey I thought go set me free

Just be another type of cage I dey see

My phone no ring, I no reach out

We don become strangers with history

The pain wey I run from, I still dey feel am

Just now, I dey feel am alone... completely

(soft talking drum pulse fades in)

Collapse...

We don collapse...

(silence)

And nobody no dey catch us...

(fade)