Keep the Porch Light On

Verse

Screen door slappin' to a July beat

Bare feet burnin' on that county street

Radio hummin' through a rusted-out fan

Mason jar sweatin' in my sunburned hand

Sixteen summers, felt like we had time

Fireflies blinkin' like a slow blues line

Pre-Chorus

Momma said the daylight's gonna fade

Said these easy days won't always stay

So tell me will you hold this feelin' tight

When the crickets take over the night

Chorus

Keep the porch light on, keep it burnin' low

Long as that bulb glows, honey, I won't go

Sweet tea meltin' slow in the heat of the sun

Keep the porch light on till the summer's done

Verse

Gravel road dust settlin' on the truck

Kissed you once behind the woodpile stack

Daddy's old guitar leanin' on the rail

Singin' the same three chords, never gonna fail

Grew up slow like molasses in a spoon

Watched the sun hang low like an orange balloon

Pre-Chorus

Momma said the daylight's gonna fade

Said these easy days won't always stay

So tell me will you hold this feelin' tight

When the crickets take over the night

Chorus

Keep the porch light on, keep it burnin' low

Long as that bulb glows, honey, I won't go

Sweet tea meltin' slow in the heat of the sun

Keep the porch light on till the summer's done

Bridge

Now I'm grown and the porch has changed

Paint's peelin' but the bulb's the same

Every summer that slips through my hand

Brings me back to where I first began

Chorus

Keep the porch light on, keep it burnin' low

Long as that bulb glows, honey, I won't go

Sweet tea meltin' slow in the heat of the sun

Keep the porch light on till the summer's done