A House Without You

[Verse 1] The porch light hums like it’s praying low

To a gravel road where you don’t go

Your coffee cup still holds its place

Like it’s waiting on your hands and face

The screen door sighs when the night wind leans

Through the cracks between our broken dreams

I tell myself I’m doing fine

Then your ghost walks in around closing time

**[Pre-Chorus]** I burned your letters, but not the ache

I killed the bottle, but not the shake

I locked the door, I shut the room

But I can’t keep out the thought of you

[Chorus] This house doesn’t breathe without you

These walls just stand and stare

The bed feels like a graveyard

With your shadow still lying there

I thought I’d learn to live alone

Thought pain would pass on through

But the moon keeps pouring sorrow

And I don’t know who I am without you

[Verse 2] Your dress still hangs on the closet nail

Like a white flag torn by a private hell

Your perfume sleeps in the wooden grain

And wakes back up when it starts to rain

I drive past the church where we almost stayed

Past the field where our promises frayed

Every fence post knows what I won’t say

I lost my home when you walked away

[Pre-Chorus] I cursed your name, then begged it back

Like thunder chasing railroad tracks

I wore my pride like Sunday shoes

But they didn’t carry me far from you

[Chorus] This house doesn’t breathe without you

These walls just stand and stare

The bed feels like a graveyard

With your shadow still lying there

I thought I’d learn to live alone

Thought pain would pass on through

But the moon keeps pouring sorrow

And I don’t know who I am without you

[Bridge] If love is a lantern, mine’s burned black

If time is a river, it won’t run back

I hear your laugh in the cedar trees

Like God left a wound inside the breeze

I’d trade the whiskey, trade the blame

Trade every mile that fed this flame

For one more dawn where your hand stayed

Before my whole world came unmade

[Final Chorus] This house doesn’t breathe without you

These walls just stand and stare

The bed feels like a graveyard

With your shadow still lying there

I thought I’d learn to live alone

Thought pain would pass on through

But the moon keeps pouring sorrow

And I don’t know who I am without you

[Outro 1] The porch light hums, the night stays blue

The floorboards call me back to you

I’m still here, breaking clean in two

In a house that died without you

[Outro 2] The porch light hums, the night stays blue

The floorboards call me back to you

I’m still here, breaking clean in two

In a house that died without you

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