# WhatStays

[Intro]
(Only a room tone, a held breath)
（只有一个房间的tone，一个屏住的呼吸）
[Verse 1]
We always talked about the leaving
我们总是谈论离开
The dramatic exit, the last word
那个戏剧性的出口，那最后一句话
But you just quietly packed your books
但你只是安静地收拾好你的书
And closed the door like you'd done it before
把门关上，像你以前做过的那样
So when I try to find the ending
所以当我试图找到那个结局
The chapter we were supposed to write
那个我们应该写下的章节
There's just the shape of what remains
只剩下那些残留的形状
And what dissolves when love goes quiet
和当爱安静下来时什么会消散
[Pre-Chorus]
床单仍保留着你睡过的形状
The sheets still hold your sleeping shape
一周，也许两周，然后什么都没有
For a week, maybe two, then nothing
有些东西比它们的温暖消失得更快
Some things leave faster than their warmth
有些缺席比在场更响
Some absences are louder than presences
告诉我什么留下
[Chorus]
Tell me what stays
当其他一切都离开时？
When everything else has gone?
这个房间，这片光，这个时辰
This room, this light, this hour
你离开的感觉
This feeling of you moving on
留下的是早晨
What stays is the way the morning
仍以你在的时候的方式到来
Still arrives the way it did when you were here
留下的是平凡的
What stays is the ordinary
每日的，什么都没有的，什么都有的
The daily, the nothing, the everything
留下的是你带走的一切
What stays is everything you took
和你留下的一切
And everything you left
邻居从不知道你的名字
[Verse 2]
The neighbors never knew your name
但他们隔着墙听到了我们
But they heard us through the wall
现在他们听到我在凌晨三点自言自语
Now they hear me talking to myself
关于什么都没有，关于一切
At three AM, about nothing, about all
你的咖啡杯在橱柜里
Your coffee cup is in the cabinet
在我妈妈的马克杯和我的之间
Between my mother's mug and mine
每天早上我都够过它
I reach past it every morning
我从未把它挪开过
And I've never once moved it aside
床单仍保留着你睡过的形状
[Pre-Chorus]
一周，也许两周，然后什么都没有
The sheets still hold your sleeping shape
有些东西比它们的温暖消失得更快
For a week, maybe two, then nothing
有些缺席比在场更响
Some things leave faster than their warmth
告诉我什么留下
Some absences are louder than presences
当其他一切都离开时？
[Chorus]
Tell me what stays
这个房间，这片光，这个时辰
When everything else has gone?
你离开的感觉
This room, this light, this hour
留下的是早晨
This feeling of you moving on
仍以你在的时候的方式到来
What stays is the way the morning
留下的是平凡的
Still arrives the way it did when you were here
每日的，什么都没有的，什么都有的
What stays is the ordinary
留下的是你带走的一切
The daily, the nothing, the everything
和你留下的一切
What stays is everything you took
最残忍的不是你带走的
And everything you left
是你留下的一切
[Bridge]
The cruelest part isn't what you took
那些仍有你地址的习惯
It's what you left behind
那些仍记得你设计的房间
The habits that still have your address
我曾以为爱是保留
The rooms that still remember your design
现在我知道它是放手
I used to think love was the keeping
而我不知道怎么放手
Now I know it's the letting go
我只知道怎么和留下的一切待在一起
And I don't know how to let go
那就是一切
I just know how to stay with what's left
那就是什么都没有
Which is everything
那就是这个
Which is nothing
（低语，几乎什么都没有）
Which is this
什么留下……什么留下……
[Outro]
(Whispered, almost nothing)
这个问题就是答案
What stays… what stays…
停留就是离开
The asking is the answer
爱就是悲伤
The staying is the leaving
就是爱
The love is the grief
就是……