Hold The Line

The house is loud, the inbox full

The tension climbs, the nights are dull

She's still quiet, I'm still here

Running two lives on measured fear

I know the shifts, I read the tone

The cold goodnights, the lowered phone

But this ain't the time to come undone

It's the time to brace, to just stay on

So I hold the line, take the heat

Keep things moving, stay on my feet

I don't explode, I don't retreat

I show up where we used to meet

You want the truth? I've known for years

But I let go of righteous tears

I don't need blame to feel what's right

I just hold the line

Every damn night

Our son is watching how we move

How we repair, or just disprove

She's not the villain, I'm not the saint

We're both surviving something we ain't

The business hums, the lights stay on

But that don't mean the damage's gone

I put my grief behind the task

No one here is meant to ask

So I hold the line, fix the flow

Keep the calm when I want to go

I stay composed, I slow my breath

Even when it tastes like death

You think I'm blind—I never was

But some things don't get cleaned with gloves

I won't accuse, I won't indict

I just hold the line

'Til we get light

You say I should be grateful still

That you could've left, that you had the will

But threats don't soften what we feel

They just remind us what's not healed

I didn't beg, I didn't plead

I just kept showing up where you said you'd leave

If not burning it down is what you claim

Then maybe we built this in the wrong name

Yeah, you're hurt—I see it too

I've just run out of ways to prove

That staying now ain't weakness, babe

It's just the only move that's brave

I hold the line

Not to win

Not to fix