Lyrics
[Spoken intro] Yeah… They think they know what love looks like
from a photograph.
They don't know what it cost.
They don't know what it still costs.
Let me tell you…
[Verse 1] Six years I been carryin' your name under my tongue
Six years of "just a friend," six years of comin' undone
A bar in the city, March, the lights was low
You tasted like a secret I already couldn't let go
I had a ring on my hand and a life I swore I'd keep
But somethin' 'bout the way you laughed wouldn't let me sleep
So I lied to the mirror, girl, I lied to the man in the glass
I told him it was nothin' — God, I knew that wouldn't last
[Pre-Chorus] And every season I said this is the last one
Every winter I said baby, we done
But you'd call, and I'd answer
Like a fool to a drum
Like a fool — to a drum — [Chorus] Oh, love on the rooftop, sun goin' down
Your fingers in my fingers, no one else around
Dancin' like the world wasn't watchin' us fall
Six years gone, baby — six years gone — and I remember it all
I remember it all
[Verse 2] Breakfast on the patio, ten-thirty, you in white
You looked at me like mornin' had forgiven the night
Two coffees gettin' cold 'cause I couldn't look away
I knew the bill was comin' — didn't know the price I'd pay
'Cause somebody had a camera, and somebody had a grudge
And the truth I kept in whispers got dragged before the judge
Of every stranger scrollin', every saint with a phone
Turnin' my quiet sin into a thing they all own
[Pre-Chorus] And my wife — God, my wife — She didn't raise her voice, she just raised her eyes
And the house got so quiet
I could hear my own lies
I could hear — my own lies — [Chorus] Oh, love on the rooftop, sun goin' down
Your fingers in my fingers, no one else around
Dancin' like the world wasn't watchin' us fall
Six years gone, baby — six years gone — and I remember it all
[Bridge] They want a villain, they want a name
They want somebody they can shame
But shame don't know what wantin' is
Shame ain't ever laid in a bed like this
Where every kiss was a question
And every answer was wrong
And we kept on answerin'
All — night — long
I ain't askin' you to save me
I ain't askin' you to stay
I'm just tellin' you the truth
before they take the truth away — [Final Chorus] Oh, love on the rooftop (love, love)
Sun goin' down (goin' down on us, baby)
Your fingers in my fingers
No one else — no one else — around
We danced like the world wasn't watchin' us fall
Six years gone, sugar
Six years gone
And God help me — I'd do it all — I'd do it all — again…
[Outro, spoken] Mm.
They can have the photographs.
They can have the headlines.
They can have every damn thing they think they know.
But that rooftop?
That sun?
That's mine.
That's ours.
Six years gone…
and still warm. ```