Sundial on My Dashboard

Verse

Paperweight on the kitchen table now

Your handwriting and a little bit of rain

Dust on the windowsill catching sunlight

Same old porch swing, just a different train

The fence line's rusty where you used to mow it

But I still know every inch, every bend

Mama says don't cry too hard about yesterday

Just fold up your memories like a napkin and let them mend

Pre-Chorus

So tell me if the leaving's worth the staying

Tell me what was lost when we said goodbye

I want to hold onto something like a promise

Not just the ending, not just the why

Chorus

It's a sundial on my dashboard window now

Marking time instead of miles away

Every shadow moving slow and steady

Is just you, is still you, coming back to stay

Maybe endings are just doors we don't shut yet

Maybe this is a chapter nobody's closed yet

I'm still wearing your jacket like it's Sunday morning

Still holding onto something that looks a little like hope

Verse

Mailbox full of cards with my name misspelled

But the handwriting's mine, I didn't lose you twice

The oak tree by the fence line has three new birds nesting

Every year gets softer, gets lighter, gets right

Your old guitar strings are hanging from the rafters now

I play them every Sunday just to see if it still holds true

Some days the sun comes up and everything's okay again

Other days I just sit here with your coffee cup and try not to pretend

Pre-Chorus

So tell me if the leaving's worth the staying

Tell me what was lost when we said goodbye

I want to hold onto something like a promise

Not just the ending, not just the why

Chorus

It's a sundial on my dashboard window now

Marking time instead of miles away

Every shadow moving slow and steady

Is just you, is still you, coming back to stay

Maybe endings are just doors we don't shut yet

Maybe this is a chapter nobody's closed yet

I'm still wearing your jacket like it's Sunday morning

Still holding onto something that looks a little like hope

Bridge

I'm not gonna fix the clock tower or the swing set fence

I'm just gonna learn to live with where we left off on Tuesday

You said forever, but forever was always just an hour away

Turns out I can love that anyway

Chorus

It's a sundial on my dashboard window now

Marking time instead of miles away

Every shadow moving slow and steady

Is just you, is still you, coming back to stay

Maybe endings are just doors we don't shut yet

Maybe this is a chapter nobody's closed yet

I'm still wearing your jacket like it's Sunday morning

Still holding onto something that looks a little like hope

Outro

So tell me if the leaving's worth the staying

Tell me what was lost when we said goodbye