Too Late to Love You Right (Female singer)

There’s black mold on the wall

And rain in the window screen

Your dress still hangs by the bedroom door

Like a ghost in faded cream

The dog won’t sleep on your side now

The floorboards know your name

And every time that screen door cries

I swear it sounds the same

[Pre-Chorus] I had your love in my hands

And I held it like a debt

I watched you fade from wanting me

To learning to forget

[Chorus] I loved you wrong, I lost you right

I buried heaven in a Southern night

You gave me grace, I gave you pain

Now your memory walks in with the rain

I had the heart, but not the spine

To keep your hand from leaving mine

Now I drink with fading ghosts under porchlight

Too late to love you right

[Verse 2] I hear you found a better man

Down past the county line

One who doesn’t make promises

Then leave them there to die

I hope he knows your coffee is dark

And how you hate goodbyes

I hope he sees the storm in you

And never calls it skies

[Pre-Chorus] I blamed the bottle, blamed the road

Blamed the blood I came from

But truth doesn’t kneel for cowards

And regret, don’t ever run

[Chorus] I loved you wrong, I lost you right

I buried heaven in a Southern night

You gave me grace, I gave you pain

Now your memory walks in with the rain

I had the heart, but not the spine

To keep your hand from leaving mine

Now I drink with fading ghosts under porchlight

Too late to love you right

[Bridge] The kudzu climbs the fence out back

Like guilt around my chest

The crickets sing your leaving song

While I wear out my regrets

If love was just a Bible verse

I’d know it word for word

But I preached it like a sinner

And forgot what you deserved

[Verse 3] So let the pine trees judge me slow

Let the red clay take my knees

Let the river drag my sorry prayers

Through roots and broken reeds

I won’t ask you to come back home

I know that door is closed

Some men don’t lose their one true love

They trade it for their woes

[Final Chorus] I loved you wrong, I lost you right

I buried heaven in a Southern night

You gave me grace, I gave you pain

Now your memory walks in with the rain

I had the heart, but not the spine

To keep your hand from leaving mine

Now I drink with fading ghosts under porchlight

Too late to love you right

[Outro] There’s black mold on the wall

And rain in the window screen

I lost the best thing God let stay

Like a ghost, I'll fade away