Too Late to Love You Right

[Verse 1] Soot on the ceiling

Rot in the screen

White cotton hanging

Like a ghost in faded cream

The dog won't sleep on the side you left

That cedar floor knows your name

When the iron hinge cries out late at night

I swear it sounds the same

[Pre-Chorus] I held your spirit like a heavy debt

I watched you learn how to forget

You were gold in the gray

Then you simply drifted away

[Chorus] I loved you wrong

I lost you right

I buried heaven in a Southern night

You gave me grace

I gave you pain

Your memory walks in with the rain

Memory walks in with the rain

Too late to love you right

[Post-Chorus] Oh oh

In the rain

Oh oh

[Verse 2] The red clay is rising

Past the county line

Your new man makes a promise

And never leaves it to die

He knows you want it bitter

And how you hate to say goodbye

He sees the storm building inside your skin

Instead of looking at the sky

[Pre-Chorus] I blamed the road and the family blood

Now the truth is sinking in the mud

You were gold in the gray

Then you simply drifted away

[Chorus] I loved you wrong

I lost you right

I buried heaven in a Southern night

You gave me grace

I gave you pain

Your memory walks in with the rain

Memory walks in with the rain

Too late to love you right

[Bridge] Kudzu climbs the wire

Guilt around my chest

I wore out my welcome

I wore out my rest

The crickets sing the leaving song

The river drags the prayers along

Broken reeds

Broken needs

[Chorus] I loved you wrong

I lost you right

I buried heaven in a Southern night

You gave me grace

I gave you pain

Your memory walks in with the rain

Memory walks in with the rain

Too late to love you right