Light I Leave

Intro

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Verse 1

The spare key sat under the mat for years

I kept it just in case somebody came

Your window plant had grown so wild and tall

It waited out the weather by the frame

Pre-Chorus

And I could hear the floorboards just like you

The way they sang the weight of every step

I almost turned the handle and walked in

The way I always did and always kept

Chorus

But the plant is all I water now

The dust lies where your clock once stood

I leave a light on overnight

For someone I believed would come for good

Verse 2

Your mother called me Sunday afternoon

She asked if I had heard from you at all

I said I'd left the garden gate ajar

And let the summer take the vine and wall

Pre-Chorus

I never told her that I stopped the mail

Or that I kept your jacket by the stair

A part of me still half expects the bell

A part of me has learned to breathe the air

Chorus

But the plant is all I water now

The dust lies where your clock once stood

I leave a light on overnight

For someone I believed would come for good

Bridge

I found the letter folded in the drawer

It said you never planned to make it back

It lay there like a stone I hadn't turned

And all at once the waiting lost its track

Instrumental Journey

Final Chorus

I finally water what is mine

I finally sweep the floor for me

The light I leave is for myself

The garden grows the way it's meant to be

Outro

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The vine comes back each spring

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The gate stays where it swings

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