Every Light We Left On

Verse

Kitchen window, quarter past eleven

Porch bulb humming like it knows the reason

You left your cardigan across the chair

Like you might come back for the sleeve still holding air

Pre-Chorus

And I could shut it off, let the dark come in

But some part of me still wants to begin

So tell me, is it foolish, is it wrong

Chorus

To keep every light we left on

Burning soft till the feeling's gone

Every window glowing gold and small

Just in case you still remember it all

I'm not ready to let the last one fall

So I keep every light we left on

Verse

Found the photographs under the stairwell

Summer static on a table by the well

You're laughing at something I can't hear

But I swear I catch the echo every year

Pre-Chorus

And I could box it up, call it the past

But some things aren't built to move that fast

So tell me, is it foolish, is it wrong

Chorus

To keep every light we left on

Burning soft till the feeling's gone

Every window glowing gold and small

Just in case you still remember it all

I'm not ready to let the last one fall

So I keep every light we left on

Bridge

Maybe warmth's not about who's staying

Maybe it's the keeping, not the saving

Maybe every bulb I never switch

Is just my heart refusing to go dim

Chorus

So I keep every light we left on

Burning soft till the feeling's gone

Every window glowing gold and small

Not because I'm waiting after all

Just because the glow still knows my name

So I keep every light aflame