One Bad Sentence

One bad sentence
I heard it after everybody did

You told me in the car outside your building
The thing you didn't want the others told
I said of course and helped you with the shopping
Like being trusted wasn't mine to hold
Then at dinner someone left a little opening
I saw a laugh and reached across for it
Your smile went still before the room went quiet
You set your fork down slowly by the dish

I said I didn't mean it like it sounded
You said you knew exactly how it sounded

One bad sentence
Took the laughter from your face
Now I have to let you tell me
What my sorry doesn't change

I hear it
I hear it when the room is gone

I wrote a message with a hundred reasons
For why I wasn't really who you'd seen
Read it back and saw you doing all the work
To make the part I played feel small to me
I walked the block and practiced saying sorry
Without a but to turn the story round
You opened up; I kept my hands beside me
And said the words before my nerve ran out

You didn't have to make the moment easy
I didn't come to ask you for a smile

One bad sentence
Took the laughter from your face
Now I have to let you tell me
What my sorry doesn't change

I used the thing you trusted me to carry
To buy a second where I felt worth more
You can take your time deciding what that makes us
I can tell the truth and leave it at your door

One bad sentence
Took the laughter from your face
Now I have to let you tell me
What my sorry doesn't change
One bad sentence
Took the laughter from your face
Now I have to let you tell me
What my sorry doesn't change

One bad sentence
And one thing I can do
I told them what I did without your story
I left the next word up to you