Say It Like You Mean It – The Coastline Kids

Verse

Platform lights are humming gold

The 5:15 train yawns and slows

Your suitcase wheels catch every crack

I'm memorizing your jacket's back

Steam curls up from a paper cup

Neither one of us drinks it up

Pre-Chorus

So don't just wave from the window seat

Don't let this turn into something neat

If this is really goodbye tonight

Chorus

Then say it like you mean it

Let it shake a little, let it break the calm

Say it like you mean it

Hold my face like a lantern in your palm

We can cry and still be radiant

We can lose the map and still find land

So say it like you mean it

Before the whistle blows, before the sun

Say it like you mean it

Verse

Six months of postcards, borrowed time

A phone that rings on foreign time

You said the ocean sounds the same

No matter what we call this pain

The ticket stub is turning soft

I'll keep it folded in my loft

Pre-Chorus

So don't just wave from the window seat

Don't let this turn into something neat

If this is really goodbye tonight

Chorus

Then say it like you mean it

Let it shake a little, let it break the calm

Say it like you mean it

Hold my face like a lantern in your palm

We can cry and still be radiant

We can lose the map and still find land

So say it like you mean it

Before the whistle blows, before the sun

Say it like you mean it

Bridge

Maybe leaving isn't losing

Maybe roots can learn to fly

Every ending's just beginning

Wearing borrowed clothes, saying goodbye

I'll carry you in every harbor light

I'll find you underneath a different sky

Chorus

So say it like you mean it

Let it shake a little, let it break the calm

Say it like you mean it

Hold my face like a lantern in your palm

We can cry and still be radiant

We can lose the map and still find land

So say it like you mean it

Before the whistle blows, before the sun

Say it like you mean it

Say it like you mean it