Coffee Goes Cold Slowly

Verse

Steam is rising off the rim

Window's fogged where light gets thin

Sugar spoon still standing tall

Nobody's rushing me at all

The corner booth, the same worn seat

Newspaper folds to yesterday's news

I let the pages stay unread

Let the quiet have the lead

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I don't need to know

Where the afternoon will go

Maybe easy is the way

To spend a Sunday gray

Chorus

Coffee goes cold slowly

Like it's got no place to be

I'm learning how to hold things

Loosely

The clock hands barely moving

Nothing here is asking me to leave

Coffee goes cold slowly

And so do we

Verse

Waitress hums a tune she knows

Chair legs scrape, the register glows

Somebody's laughing by the door

I'm not counting minutes anymore

The cream swirls slow then disappears

Like all my plans for all these years

I used to chase the next bright thing

Now I just let the silence sing

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I don't need to know

Where the afternoon will go

Maybe easy is the way

To spend a Sunday gray

Chorus

Coffee goes cold slowly

Like it's got no place to be

I'm learning how to hold things

Loosely

The clock hands barely moving

Nothing here is asking me to leave

Coffee goes cold slowly

And so do we

Bridge

There's a version of me running still

Chasing trains down every hill

But he's not sitting in this light

He's not tasting this goodbye

I'll wave to him from where I am

Let him go the way he can

Chorus

Coffee goes cold slowly

Like it's got no place to be

I'm learning how to hold things

Loosely

The clock hands barely moving

Nothing here is asking me to leave

Coffee goes cold slowly

And so do we