When Your Light Comes Back

Verse

Fence post weathered where your name used to be

Dandelions poking through the cracks in me

You said goodbye like a storm that's moving out

I waited under the same old cloud of doubt

The sun rose red on another empty room

My boots creaking the same worn-out tune

Barefoot children laughing, chasing fireflies

While I stood frozen where the driveway ends and starts

Your laughter echoing off the trees like a ghost in my chest

Pre-Chorus

So what if the porch light's still burning bright?

What if your shadow lands right where it did tonight?

Chorus

When your light comes back, I'll be standing here

Not watching shadows, but welcoming you near

We don't need a reason for every goodbye

When you return to me, everything will ignite

I won't ask why the stars decided to align

Just shine your face and let your light collide with mine

We didn't lose one summer; we just stored it away

To be lit up again when your heart starts moving back this way

Verse 2

Crickets keep on singing where you used to park

Your old jacket hanging from the nail in the dark

I still know every curve of that worn-out frame

Like a map I carry in my skin and brain

Grandma's rocking chair creaks under my weight

But nothing feels like home until your feet land on this gate

The same old swing that swung us high above our worries

Still waiting for you to kick the rust off, let it turn back into butterflies

Pre-Chorus

So what if the porch light's still burning bright?

What if your shadow lands right where it did tonight?

Chorus

When your light comes back, I'll be standing here

Not watching shadows, but welcoming you near

We don't need a reason for every goodbye

When you return to me, everything will ignite

I won't ask why the stars decided to align

Just shine your face and let your light collide with mine

We didn't lose one summer; we just stored it away

To be lit up again when your heart starts moving back this way

Bridge

Maybe you never left at all

You just borrowed some of that sky for a little while, that's all

Chorus

When your light comes back, I'll be standing here

Not watching shadows, but welcoming you near

We don't need a reason for every goodbye

When you return to me, everything will ignite

I won't ask why the stars decided to align

Just shine your face and let your light collide with mine

We didn't lose one summer; we just stored it away

To be lit up again when your heart starts moving back this way