Candlelight Doesn't Lie

Verse

Two glasses left, one full of red

The waiter clears the bread we didn't touch

Your coat's already on the chair beside me

Table for two, feels like too much

Wax is dripping slow onto the linen

Same as it did the night we met

Twelve weeks of Sundays at this corner window

Counting up a debt I won't forget

Pre-Chorus

So tell me how we do this

How we let the evening end

Do we toast to what we're losing

Or to who we get to be again

Chorus

Candlelight doesn't lie

It just burns till it's done

Not a tragedy, not a goodbye

Just the last dance of a setting sun

We were real while the flame was high

Candlelight doesn't lie

Verse

You're folding up the napkin like a letter

Like you're keeping something small to hold

I'm memorizing how the shadows move

Across your face before it all goes cold

The check comes and neither of us reaches

Both our hands out, steady, unafraid

This isn't breaking, this is just the ending

Of a good and honest thing we made

Pre-Chorus

So tell me how we do this

How we let the evening end

Do we toast to what we're losing

Or to who we get to be again

Chorus

Candlelight doesn't lie

It just burns till it's done

Not a tragedy, not a goodbye

Just the last dance of a setting sun

We were real while the flame was high

Candlelight doesn't lie

Bridge

Outside the window, morning's already waiting

Streetlamp flickers where the dark used to be

There's a version of us walking into it laughing

Different table, same honesty

I'll take the wax stains on the tablecloth

I'll take the empty chair as proof

That something good doesn't need forever

It just needs to burn like it's the truth

Chorus

Candlelight doesn't lie

It just burns till it's done

Not a tragedy, not a goodbye

Just the last dance of a setting sun

We were real while the flame was high

Candlelight doesn't lie

Candlelight doesn't lie