honey don’t come easy it settles in slow till the years fall away and there’s nowhere else to go if the last song fades and the lights disappear i’d still know your love by the way it feels here you can taste the years in a kiss like this little bit of sugar, little bitterness all that living underneath your lips all that unsaid business on your fingertips i know where the heat goes when the lights go low how your whole face changes when the needle drops slow how a room full of people can disappear when you lean in close enough to make me hear there’s a wild little mercy in the way you love never quite enough, always more than enough like a good slow record with a worn-out side every little imperfection getting sweeter with time honey don’t come easy it settles in slow till the years fall away and there’s nowhere else to go if the last song fades and the lights disappear i’d still know your love by the way it feels here you know that old blue note that hangs past the bar the one that makes a small room feel twice as large that’s what you do when you say my name leave a little smoke where the air was plain you’ve got that slow-cooked sweetness, that pepper and peel that look that says you know exactly what i feel and after all these years, all the ways i’ve grown you can touch one nerve and make it sing alone and i don’t mean perfect, i don’t mean easy i mean your real name written deep inside me the part of the song that the radio cuts the note that keeps ringing when the needle comes up honey don’t come easy it settles in slow till the years fall away and there’s nowhere else to go if the last song fades and the lights disappear i’d still know your love by the way it feels here there’s a low-down ache in the things that last a little slow burn from a long-held past the kind of wanting that don’t need to shout the kind that knows what the silence is about so lay that old record on side b let the brass come in like a memory let the bass line lean where the heart beats late let the whole world wait at the garden gate i’ve got the taste of your mouth and the sound of your name and the strange sweet fact after all we’ve been through i’m still finding new ways to come back to you honey don’t come easy it settles in slow till the years fall away and there’s nowhere else to go if the last song fades and the lights disappear i’d still know your love by the way it feels here
