Keep the Porch Light On – Paper Tide

Verse

Rain quit around eight, left the gutters humming low

Steam on the window, city breathing soft and slow

Puddles hold the streetlamps like they're melting into gold

I'm barefoot on the floorboards, still a little cold

Radio's turned down to a whisper and a hush

Grabbed my grandad's flannel, feel the worn spots in the brush

Thunder's just a memory rolling out past the trees

Everything gone quiet, just the drip off the eaves

Pre-Chorus

So what do you do

When the noise finally clears

Just breathe it on through

After all of those years

Chorus

I keep the porch light on

For whatever's still out there

Wind's died down to a song

And I got nowhere to be, nowhere

Coffee's gone but I don't care

I keep the porch light on

Verse

Found your old umbrella folded up behind the door

Never gave it back to you, don't need it anymore

Sky's a bruised kind of purple fading into gray

Crickets tuning up like nothing got in their way

Screen door creaks the same three notes it always played

Moon's behind the clouds but I can see the light it made

Neighbor's dog stopped barking, world's gone soft at the seams

I could sit right here and drift on into dreams

Pre-Chorus

So what do you do

When the storm rolls out west

Just sit in the blue

Let your shoulders rest

Chorus

I keep the porch light on

For whatever's still out there

Wind's died down to a song

And I got nowhere to be, nowhere

Coffee's gone but I don't care

I keep the porch light on

Bridge

Maybe you'll come walking

Through the wet grass, slow and easy

Maybe it's just me here

And that's alright, believe me

Either way I'm staying

Till the porch light starts to fade

Either way I'm grateful

For the quiet that it made

Chorus

I keep the porch light on

For whatever's still out there

Wind's died down to a song

And I got nowhere to be, nowhere

Coffee's gone but I don't care

I keep the porch light on