The Label Store Was Closed (Situationship Love)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We go to dinner but we don't call it a date
We stay the night but we don't call it a stay
I have a filing system for everything I own
And a drawer that has no label where you lay

You introduced me to your brother as your friend
Your brother looked at me like that was clearly wrong
I looked at you for a correction that you didn't make
And drove home to a playlist one song long

[Chorus]
What are we is a question shaped like furniture
It fills the room but no one sits in it
The label store was closed the day we started
And now we're just two people sharing counterfeit

[Verse 2]
My phone autocompletes your name before the third letter
Which means the algorithm decided before we did
I make your coffee in a mug I bought for you
That lives beside my mugs but with a gap like it's a kid

You leave your jacket and I hang it in the closet
Not the hook behind the door where guests belong
The closet is for residents and you're not that
But the hook felt like it would be getting something wrong

[Chorus]
What are we is a question shaped like furniture
It fills the room but no one sits in it
The label store was closed the day we started
And now we're just two people sharing counterfeit

[Bridge]
My anterior cingulate can't resolve the conflict
Every category has a border and you're on it
I could ask you to define this but the asking
Would reveal that I've been mapping it with a sonnet

[Outro]
The mug is still beside my mugs
The gap is getting smaller
I haven't mentioned it
Neither have you
The gap is doing all the talking