I don’t want to speak tonight
Of the rooms we left behind
I have counted every card
I have lost them all in time
You were standing calm and still
With the future in your hand
I was smiling like a fool
Trying hard to understand
I built walls around your name
Called them shelter, called them home
But the house was made of smoke
And I woke up there alone
The winner walks away
With the fire on her face
And the loser learns to smile
From a smaller, darker place
There’s no trial, no appeal
No one asks if it was fair
When the final hand is shown
Only one of us is there
I remember how it felt
When your shoulder knew my head
Like the world had found its shape
In the silence of your bed
Now he touches what I knew
Now he hears you say his name
And I wonder if your heart
Still remembers mine the same
I won’t curse the turning wheel
I won’t beg the night to stay
But some questions cut too deep
When the drums call out my name
The winner walks away
With the fire on her face
And the loser learns to smile
From a smaller, darker place
There’s no trial, no appeal
No one asks if it was fair
When the final hand is shown
Only one of us is there
Maybe love was just a table
Maybe fate was just a flame
Maybe both of us were players
But we didn’t lose the same
I am not here to blame you
I am not here to make you small
I just never thought a silence
Could be loud enough to fall
The winner walks away
With the fire on her face
And the loser learns to smile
From a smaller, darker place
There’s no trial, no appeal
No one asks if it was fair
When the final hand is shown
Only one of us is there
The winner walks away
And the night begins to call
I was never built for games
But I still learned how to fall
So take the room, take the dawn
Take the story we became
I will leave without a crown
I will leave you with your name
I was never good at games
