Fading Lantern Blues

Ashtray full of endings

Coffee gone cold on the chair

Your coat still hangs by the doorway

Like you might turn the handle

Be there

So

I’m

crying through the strings tonight

Let this old neck carry my pain

Every note

your name

Your

name

I’m crying through the strings tonight

Till these calloused hands run dry

And the silence takes

your place

Picture frame facing the wall now

Can’t stand the way you still grin

All I do is bend these memories

Try to shake your shadow from

my skin

So I’m crying through the strings tonight

Let this old neck carry my pain

Every note

your name

Your

name

I’m crying through the strings tonight

Till these calloused hands run dry

And the silence takes

your place I

don’t talk about you

I just let the frets confess

Every slide a broken promise Every buzz a last regret (oh)

I’m crying through the strings tonight

Let this old neck

carry my

pain Every note your name Your name

I’m crying through the strings tonight

Till these calloused hands run dry

And the silence takes your place