Come Back Honest

Verse 1

Your blue mug waits beside the sink

A tea ring drying on the wood

I hear your key turn in my mind

Though every lock is understood

Pre-Chorus

I keep the hallway lamp awake

As if a little light could plead

You said you needed room to breathe

I gave you all the room I had

Chorus

So come back honest, come back tired

Come back with nothing left to prove

I'd rather hear the hard truth break

Than keep this careful shape of you

I'm still here, I'm still here

With both hands open in the room

Verse 2

The coat you left still holds its fold

One sleeve turned softly toward the door

I touch the pocket for your change

Then hate myself for wanting more

Pre-Chorus

I try to speak the way you did

The small, plain words that made things kind

But every sentence catches short

And leaves its little piece behind

Chorus

So come back honest, come back tired

Come back with nothing left to prove

I'd rather hear the hard truth break

Than keep this careful shape of you

I'm still here, I'm still here

With both hands open in the room

Instrumental Break

Bridge

I don't need you to mend me

I don't need a softer end

Just tell me what was real here

Before we learn to call this friends

If you're gone, say it plainly

Let the sentence do its work

Don't leave me making meaning

From the silence and the hurt

Breakdown

I'm still here

I'm still—

Final Chorus

Come back honest, come back tired

Come back with nothing left to prove

I'd rather hear the hard truth break

Than keep this careful shape of you

I'm still here, I'm still here

Though my voice gives out on you

Both hands open in the room

Both hands open—

Outro

Your blue mug waits beside the sink

And I let the morning in