Fading Heartstrings

I saved your letter by the bed

Read it slow when I forget

Coffee goes cold in the kitchen

Your old coat still hangs by mine

I keep making room for forgiveness

Like it might walk in tonight

Mama says love has a weather

Some days it rains,

then it clears

I was proud, you were tired

We both learned how to stand alone

But if your heart is still asking

Mine is still answering home

If you come back,

come back tender

Lay your armor at the door

I don't need the perfect answer

I just need your hand in yours

Love can bend and still remember

What it was fighting for

Your laugh is still in the hallway

Not as loud, but it remains

I was counting every leaving

You were carrying the blame

Maybe mercy is a window

Maybe we can raise the frame

If you come back,

come back tender

Lay your armor at the door

I don't need the perfect answer

I just need your hand in yours

Love can bend and still remember

What it was fighting for

I don't want to win the silence

I don't want to keep the score

Take the key I never gave you

Turn it

once more

If you come back,

come back tender

Lay your armor at the door

I don't need the perfect answer

I just need your hand in yours

Love can bend and still remember

What it was fighting for

Come back tender Come back tender

I'll leave the light in my soul