Burning for a Ghost

Verse 1

Rain on the window keeps asking me why

I still leave your message on the old machine

Three months of quiet and the kettle's gone cold

I count every footstep down the hallway again

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I hold on to the cracks

Maybe I trace them back to you

Chorus

Somewhere between the leaving and the last goodbye

I forgot how to feel too much at all

So I keep the porch light burning for a ghost

And the quiet fills the spaces you once owned

Verse 2

Your coat's still hanging like it knows the way

I fold it up slow and put it on the shelf

The radio hums a half-remembered tune

And I sing along like I still mean it to myself

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I wait for the storm

Maybe I listen for your voice

Chorus

Somewhere between the leaving and the last goodbye

I forgot how to feel too much at all

So I keep the porch light burning for a ghost

And the quiet fills the spaces you once owned

Bridge

And I know the door won't open twice

I know the morning comes the same

But I keep the porch light burning for a ghost

Till the quiet learns my name

Chorus

Somewhere between the leaving and the last goodbye

I forgot how to feel too much at all

So I keep the porch light burning for a ghost

And the quiet fills the spaces you once owned