Sunlight on Strings

You left your coat on the back of my chair

Coffee went cold while we stood in the stair

Nothing was broken, just tired and true

I found a quiet way back to you

And I was always counting exits

Now I am counting signs Your hand beside the doorway

Your name still fits with mine

Keep the window open,

let the weather in

We are learning how to begin again

Small town morning, paper cup rain

I choose you in the ordinary day

We taped a list to the refrigerator door Pay the rent,

buy lemons, call your mother more

Love is not thunder,

it is dishes and bread

A lamp left burning by the side of the bed

Keep the window open,

let the weather in

We are learning how to begin again

Small town morning, paper cup rain

I choose you in the ordinary day

If the roof leaks,

we will set out every bowl

If the road bends,

we can still get home I do not need a perfect sky

Just your shoulder next to

mine

Keep the window open,

let the weather in

We are learning how to begin again

Small town morning, paper cup

rain

I choose you in the ordinary day

I choose you in the ordinary day

Ordinary day I

choose

you anyway