One More Night

[Intro] Rain on the windowpane writes your name in rivulets

I count the hours like a gambler counts his debts

The clock hands drag their knuckles on the wall

And every siren sounds like somebody's last call

[Pre-Chorus] And I know (I know)

That the tide won't turn for me (for me)

So I hold (I hold)

What the river couldn't keep

[Chorus] Carry me down where the willows bend low

Where the choir hums the names of the ones we let go

I would trade every morning I've ever known

For one more night not sleeping alone

(One more night)

Not sleeping alone

[Post-Chorus] Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh

Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh

[Verse 1] Grandmother said the ghosts don't haunt, they wait

They sit beside you at the table, patient as fate

So I set two plates and I pour the wine

And I talk to the empty like it's still mine

[Pre-Chorus] And I know (I know)

That the years don't beg or plead (or plead)

So I hold (I hold)

The little that I need

[Chorus] Carry me down where the willows bend low

Where the choir hums the names of the ones we let go

I would trade every morning I've ever known

For one more night not sleeping alone

(One more night)

Not sleeping alone

[Bridge] I built a house out of everything you said

Every timber, every promise, every word unsaid

And the roof caved in when the winter came

But I still sleep in the ruin just the same

(Just the same)

Just the same

[Breakdown] Cut me open, count the rings

See what loving you has been

A slow unravel, thread by thread

A song I sing to an empty bed

(Sing to an empty bed)

[Verse 2] So let the string section swell and the horns all wail

Let the bass drop like a hammer on a nail

I am not afraid to be the last one here

Holding the candle when the dark draws near

[Final Chorus] Carry me down where the willows bend low

Where the choir hums the names of the ones we let go

I have traded the mornings I used to own

For one more night not sleeping alone

[Outro] One more night (one more night)

Not sleeping alone

Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh

Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh

Sleeping alone

(Alone)

Sleeping