Lyrics

[Intro — spoken, flat]
Something happened yesterday.
Nothing dramatic.
I just noticed...
I didn’t care.
[Verse 1]
The phone rang twice,
I watched it glow,
saw the name
and let it go.
No anger.
No ache.
No need to know.
That surprised me.
Not enough to show.
The rain came down,
the room stayed gray,
someone said something
I should’ve hated.
I waited for the feeling.
It never came.
[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe this is peace.
Maybe this is damage.
Hard to tell
when both are quiet.
[Chorus]
I stopped caring yesterday.
Not all at once.
Just enough.
A little less pain,
a little less love,
a little less of everything
I used to call blood.
I stopped caring yesterday.
And for the first time in years...
nothing hurt.
[Verse 2]
I used to replay every word,
every silence, every turn,
every almost, every goodbye,
every little reason why.
Now the past can knock.
I don’t answer.
The future can threaten.
I don’t ask.
Even disappointment
has to work harder now.
That should frighten me.
It doesn’t.
[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe this is freedom.
Maybe this is empty.
Hard to tell
when both feel light.
[Chorus]
I stopped caring yesterday.
Not all at once.
Just enough.
A little less pain,
a little less love,
a little less of everything
I used to call blood.
I stopped caring yesterday.
And for the first time in years...
nothing hurt.
[Bridge — stripped, intimate]
That’s the trick nobody tells you.
When the pain leaves,
it doesn’t always leave alone.
It takes the fear.
Good.
It takes the hope.
Fine.
It takes the anger.
Better.
Then one morning
you realize it took the joy too.
...
And you let it.
[Break — spoken]
“You seem different.”
I am.
“Better?”
...
Quieter.
[Final Chorus]
I stopped caring yesterday.
And today feels easy.
No expectations.
No disappointment.
No hands reaching inside me.
No reason to stay.
No reason to run.
No reason to want.
I stopped caring yesterday.
And nothing hurts.
Nothing shines.
Nothing reaches me.
Nothing is mine.
[Outro — whispered]
Maybe this is peace.
...
Maybe peace
isn’t supposed to feel this dead.