Faded Morning Light

You wore your hair like summer coming in through the screen I

still remember your bare feet dancing wild in the kitchen We drew

a whole life on a receipt from a corner café Said we'd

find a little house where the county road kept bending

You laughed and every hard thing in me just turned soft Midnight

in your dad's old truck,

counting stars past the water tower Back then love was easy as

your name in my mouth Back then forever sounded like the next

half hour

You took my shaking hands and called them home

Made the whole world small enough to hold

I swore nothing could touch us then Nothing could pull us from

the glow

We were porch light gold in a world gone dark Two young

hearts making heaven out of a backyard Your head on my shoulder,

my jacket on your hands We were saying someday like it was

already planned And I believed every road would lead me where you

are

Back when your love felt simple,

back when it was ours

Then autumn found us speaking through the space between our words Your

smile stayed in the room,

but somehow you were leaving Coffee going cold beside the bed,

your side already made I learned silence has a weight when somebody

quits leaning We still drove those same roads,

but nothing hit the same Windows up,

your eyes ahead, mine fixed on what was changing I started hearing

goodbye hiding under your name In every almost-kiss and every sentence you

were saving

You held me close,

but not the way you did

Like I was something slipping through your grip

I felt the weather changing in your chest Before you ever gave

it lips

We were porch light gold in a world gone dark Two young

hearts making heaven out of a backyard Now your head's on the

window and your hand won't find mine We're still saying someday,

but it sounds like a lie And I'm praying every road will

lead me where you are

But your love ain't simple now,

and I don't know where we are

The night you left,

the porch stayed on till dawn

Your cup was by the sink,

your ring was gone

I said your name to rooms that don't reply

And heard my own voice breaking in the quiet

We were porch light gold,

now the bulb just sparks One cold chair,

one cracked frame, one empty backyard Your head on my shoulder is

a ghost I can't lay down Every someday we said is just

a rusted word now And I would give every road,

every mile, every scar Just to hear your love say my name

like it was ours But the house we built in air came

apart in the dark Now I'm alone with the pieces and the

shape of your heart

The porch light's out

But I still look for you