Corner Store Light 3

Verse

Dollar signs fade off the sign board down the block

Paint chipped gold but the porch light stays lit

Bicycle spokes hung loose like a lazy man's clock

Summer boys calling out over fences we split

Your mom kept the ice cream shop closed on Sunday mornings

Said Sunday was a church, not a habit to keep

I caught your hand behind the screen door once

Thought I'd burn for that in my sleep

Pre-Chorus

Do you still know this old block by heart?

Every porch where the summer got us started

The ice cream truck hums down at 5 PM now

Still tastes like forever on a napkin

Chorus

Corner store light, soft yellow, never goes cold

Corner store light, we were young and gold

Corner store light, flickering but it won't fall

Corner store light, that's the only truth I'll tell

Verse 2

Your dad used to sweep gravel off the walkway every dawn

Never chased a check when he could fix something on his own

I came back twenty years later with my boots caked in dirt

You looked up from the register like I'd never left at all

Same bell above the door still chimes like it's 1942

Ice cream machine whirs louder than our whole neighborhood

Pre-Chorus

Do you still know this old block by heart?

Every porch where the summer got us started

The ice cream truck hums down at 5 PM now

Still tastes like forever on a napkin

Chorus

Corner store light, soft yellow, never goes cold

Corner store light, we were young and gold

Corner store light, flickering but it won't fall

Corner store light, that's the only truth I'll tell

Bridge

Now the block changed hands three times since you moved away

New sign says 'Snacks' instead of 'Welcome' any day

But on Fridays when the kids come running past my door

I turn up the bulb to twice its former roar

It's a flicker but it's still home somehow

Still that porch swing rocking like nobody's watching down

Chorus

Corner store light, soft yellow, never goes cold

Corner store light, we were young and gold

Corner store light, flickering but it won't fall

Corner store light, that's the only truth I'll tell