Better When It's Bittersweet

Verse

Boxes stacked by the front door

Your handwriting still on the wall

Twenty-three, mile marker four

Where we used to park and stall

Coffee's cold in the paper cup

Engine running, hazards on

I keep folding this map back up

Like the folding makes it gone

Pre-Chorus

So why's the sky doing that

That gold and gray at once

Why does losing you feel like

Something I won

Chorus

It's better when it's bittersweet

The salt right next to the honey

Goodbye tastes like a song we sing

When the aching feels kind of sunny

I'm crying and I'm laughing

Both at the same red light

Guess it's better when it's bittersweet

Ending in daylight

Verse

Packed the car by seven-fifteen

Left your sweater on the seat

Static on the radio between

Every station that we keep

Rearview mirror's getting small

This town shrinking in the glass

Funny how you love it all

Right when it starts to pass

Pre-Chorus

So why's the sky doing that

That gold and gray at once

Why does losing you feel like

Something I won

Chorus

It's better when it's bittersweet

The salt right next to the honey

Goodbye tastes like a song we sing

When the aching feels kind of sunny

I'm crying and I'm laughing

Both at the same red light

Guess it's better when it's bittersweet

Ending in daylight

Bridge

Maybe hearts don't break clean through

Maybe they just crack the light in

Maybe I don't need to lose the view

To know that I was living

Every door that shuts behind

Cracks another one for me

So I'll wave until you're out of sight

And call it victory

Chorus

It's better when it's bittersweet

The salt right next to the honey

Goodbye tastes like a song we sing

When the aching feels kind of sunny

I'm crying and I'm laughing

Both at the same red light

Guess it's better when it's bittersweet

Ending in daylight