If You Ever Leave Me

Intro

Oh

Oh-oh

Verse 1

I count the steps from the door to the bed

Four in the morning and the sheets still hold you

Somebody told me forever is a fragile word

I keep it folded where my pulse runs through

Every habit is a habit of you

Reaching right when the room is bare

Pre-Chorus

And I get scared sometimes

Scared of a quiet house

Scared of a half-made life

Scared you'd rather be somewhere else

Chorus

If you ever leave me

I'd still be reaching for you

If you ever leave me

I'd still be speaking your name

No map could explain it

No road could undo

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

Drop

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

If you ever leave me

Verse 2

You laugh at me for holding on so tight

Say the tide can't take a stubborn harbor

So I loosened every grip I had

And you stayed anyway

Stayed when I gave you nothing to hold

Stayed like weather stays

Pre-Chorus

I don't ask you anymore

Anymore if you're planning to go

Anymore if the summer will end

I just let the answer be your hand in mine

Chorus

If you ever leave me

I'd still be reaching for you

If you ever leave me

I'd still be speaking your name

No map could explain it

No road could undo

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

Drop

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

Bridge

You asked me once what I'd do

If the door closed behind you

I said I'd wait like a lamp in a window

Burning low burning slow

Burning for you

Chorus

If you ever leave me

I'd still be reaching for you

If you ever leave me

I'd still be speaking your name

No map could explain it

No road could undo

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

Drop

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you

If you ever leave me

I'd still be loving you