Last Ferry Home

Streetlamps stitch the shoreline

Your name still in my coat

The engine hums like a secret

I almost said it,

almost let it go

Every crossing costs a little more

Every light looks like a door

There's water between us,

black and wide But I keep coming back to the same side

If the night is a river,

I'll learn to swim Don't leave me standing where the lights go

dim

The water between us,

hold on,

hold on

Ticket in my pocket,

folded twice

I count the minutes like they might suffice

A radio sings something almost true

I hear your laugh in a stranger's booth

Every crossing costs a little more

Every light looks like a door

There's water between us,

black and wide But I keep coming back to the same side

If the night is a river,

I'll learn to swim Don't leave me standing where the lights go

dim

The water between us,

hold on,

hold on

If I miss this boat I miss the year

If I take it I might disappear

Either way the tide still knows my name

There's water between us,

black and wide But I keep coming back to the same side

If the night is a river,

I'll learn to swim Don't leave me standing where the lights go

dim

The water between us,

hold on, hold on

Hold on

Hold on (hold on)