Empty Room Lullaby

Yeah...

This house keeps every hard goodbye

In the grain and in the dust

I wore my pride like working boots

Tracked it through the things we loved

Now the table and the window frame

Hold a quiet I can't outrun

I was sure I'd have more time

Till the leaving had begun

I thought the hurt would cool itself

I thought your heart would wait

Now every night lays out the truth

A second too damn late I hear my name in the empty

room

Coming back the way I said it wrong Every crack in these

four walls knows Where I let a true love come undone

I'm not asking you to save me now

I'm not saying time was cruel

I just finally see the man I was

Standing guilty in this room

Your coat is gone but the hook still bends Like

it misses its old weight Coffee rings and a crooked chair Put

my failures on display You gave patience without a scene You gave

truth without a knife I gave promises thin as smoke And watched

them drift right out of sight Now the silence says it plain

Love don't leave without a reason I hear

my name in the empty

room Coming back the way I said it wrong

Every crack in these four walls knows Where I let a true

love come undone

If there's mercy in the air tonight Let it find what I

ruined young I'd give every hard excuse I had

Just to hold what

I had once If I could walk back through that door

I'd come in with open hands No courtroom in my chest tonight

Just a tired and honest man

So I sit where your laughter was

And let the last chord ring

Some lessons only reach the heart

When there's nothing left to sing