The Silence You Left

Verse 1

Old porch

Paint peeling back like dry skin

I sit

I watch

I wait

Rusty screen door swings on a hinge

Late July

Heavy heat hangs over the yard

Yellow grass

Dust on my boots

Empty mailbox stares me down

Chorus

Where did you go

Where did you go

I am calling out your name

It sounds like a crack in the glass

Where did you go

Where did you go

Everything is just the same

Except for the silence you left

Post-Chorus

Oh oh oh

Far away

Oh oh oh

Left behind

Verse 2

Cold coffee

Tastes like copper and regret

Matches

Burning down to my thumb

I remember the way you laughed

Low sound

Like water over smooth stones

Now the hallway is a tunnel

Dark

Wide

Long

I keep the porch light burning

Chorus

Where did you go

Where did you go

I am calling out your name

It sounds like a crack in the glass

Where did you go

Where did you go

Everything is just the same

Except for the silence you left

Bridge

Maybe you found a new road

Maybe you found a new town

Maybe you found a new life

Without the weight of me

Without the ghost of us

I am still standing in the weeds

Chorus

Where did you go

Where did you go

I am calling out your name

It sounds like a crack in the glass

Where did you go

Where did you go

Everything is just the same

Except for the silence you left

Outro

Porch light

Burning

Still burning

Waiting on a shadow

Waiting on a sound

Still here

Still here

Still here