The note that stayed

My hands are numb beneath my coat

(mmmmm) I sat in the back

because the radiator broke

Just a drafty wooden bench Two years of dust since I last

spoke

Your name in a room like this

I didn't hear

a word he preached

My mind was miles and years away

But the choir packed up their sheets

And the room began to fade When the last song died away

And the silence took the room

One single chord refused to fade

Oh, You were in the note that stayed (You were there)

I felt his library card inside my wallet seam I rubbed the

corner till the plastic frayed

My thumb against the worn-down wooden beam Where he used to swing

his feet and pray

And then the benediction fell

But the hand didn't leave the keys

A frequency I could not name

Brought me to my knees

When the last song died away

And the silence took the room

One single chord refused to fade

Oh, You were in the note that stayed

(I know You were there)

God, I only came inside to feel the heat (I didn't come

to pray) My furnace broke this morning on my street But when

the piper stopped and let the air go dry

That note hung in the air

And I

began to cry

When the last song died away

And the silence took the room

One single chord refused to fade (You were there,

You were there!) Oh,

You were in the note that stayed

(Oh, You stayed)