Keep the Porch Light On – Jonah Marrow

Verse

Kicked off my shoes on the bottom step

Screen door swinging where the crickets kept

Time all evening, gravel road hums

Underneath a sky the color of drums

Mama's radio bleeding through the wall

Every worry I had just got small

Pre-Chorus

So what's stopping me now

Tell me what's stopping me now

The night is wide open, I hear it calling somehow

Chorus

Gonna keep the porch light on

Dance out here till the dark is gone

Bare feet on the wood, heart loud and strong

Free tonight, keep the porch light on

Verse

Neighbors leaning on their fences now

Clapping time they don't know how

Old man Curtis found his stride

Spinning slow with his hands held wide

Moths keep circling that yellow glow

Like they know something I finally know

Pre-Chorus

So what's stopping me now

Tell me what's stopping me now

The chains fell off my shoulders and I threw them out somehow

Chorus

Gonna keep the porch light on

Dance out here till the dark is gone

Bare feet on the wood, heart loud and strong

Free tonight, keep the porch light on

Bridge

Used to hide behind the curtain, watching life go by

Counting all the reasons, waiting on a sign

But the moon don't wait for nobody

And tonight I don't either

Every step I take is proof I'm still here, still breathing, still believing

Chorus

Gonna keep the porch light on

Dance till every fear is gone

Bare feet on the wood, heart loud and strong

Free tonight, keep the porch light on

Free tonight, keep the porch light on