The Third Drawer (Queerplatonic Love)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You're my emergency contact and my Thursday
You're the person I call when the faucet breaks at two
We share a lease and a library card and a doctor
And the form that asks relationship says what do I put for you

I tried friend and it was too small
I tried partner and it wore the wrong coat
You're the person listed on my living will
You're the name in ink beside the part they wrote

[Chorus]
We built a third drawer for the thing we are
It doesn't match the other furniture at all
People keep trying to file us somewhere familiar
And we keep politely falling off the wall

[Verse 2]
You cut my hair on the first of every month
I drive your mother to her Tuesday thing
We split the rent and the electric and the silence
And the silence is the most expensive offering

At parties people do the math behind their eyes
Two humans plus a lease minus a bed
Equals something they can't categorize
So they smile and change the subject to instead

[Chorus]
We built a third drawer for the thing we are
It doesn't match the other furniture at all
People keep trying to file us somewhere familiar
And we keep politely falling off the wall

[Bridge]
The limbic system doesn't read your questionnaire
Attachment bonds don't check the boxes that you've built
We wired our own circuit and it carries
Every amp of love without the guilt

[Outro]
Third drawer
Second shelf
Right next to the thing
That doesn't need a name
To hold its weight