Burning Slow Like Us

Verse

Candle wax drips on a paper plate

Radio playing that one old tape

Your jacket zipped but you're still warm from me

Six more weeks till we can leave the heat

I drew your name in the condensation ring

You laughed and said it would never last

Chalk lines fading where our knees used to meet

Someday maybe this will seem like the past

Pre-Chorus

So I'm holding on to the way you smiled

Even when the fire's just a flicker now

Every ember that still holds your shape

Is all I have until I see it somehow

Chorus

We're burning slow like us, like paper in the rain

Sparking softly then dying out again

I don't need forever to feel this way at all

Burning slow like us, that's how I'll hold on to you for now

Verse

Milk is gone but there's still a ring around the cup

Coffee shop awning where we first said goodbye

Your scarf is folded somewhere inside my drawer

I keep it folded just because of this one line

I wrote your name in ink so plain it won't fade

Then I erased it twice before I was brave enough to stay

Left the chair turned back like you might still come through

But mornings come quiet, soft and different too

Pre-Chorus

So I'm holding on to the way you smiled

Even when the fire's just a flicker now

Every ember that still holds your shape

Is all I have until I see it somehow

Chorus

We're burning slow like us, like paper in the rain

Sparking softly then dying out again

I don't need forever to feel this way at all

Burning slow like us, that's how I'll hold on to you for now

Bridge

Maybe flames are meant to flicker not stay

Maybe love is just a spark we learn to fade away

Still I'm lighting another candle by the window pane

Watching golden turn to gray, then gold again

Chorus

We're burning slow like us, like paper in the rain

Sparking softly then dying out again

I don't need forever to feel this way at all

Burning slow like us, that's how I'll hold on to you for now