Porchlight Flicker

Blow out the candle,

watch it turn to grey

Sitting in a room ten floors away

Hotel suite with the lights down low

Look at the street where the small cars go

Porch light next door,

keeping it bright Rewriting the text till the spark is quiet

Type it out, wash it dry

Take the sting right out the sky

(making it dull)

(making it clean)

Cold cake, blackout candle shine Rewriting

every single line

(every word) Keep it soft so it doesn't hurt

Crime pop in the velvet dirt

Neighbor watches through the window pane

Bleaching the color right out of the stain

I had the fire but I watered it down

Silent suite in a crowded town

Blackout candle...

(dull it down, dull it down)

Ten floors up, looking down