[Intro] Steam off the cup Your laugh in the steam I lean in Like a bad idea with a good name [Verse 1] You handed me the bottle like it was nothing at all Warm glass, cheap spice, a thumbprint in the dew I watched you drink first and I watched the line of your jaw Then you passed it over and the rim still had you I did not care about apples or the stand on the corner I cared about the place your mouth had just been You talked about the weather like the weather was a cover And I nodded at the weather With my whole life leaning in [Pre-Chorus] Say it was just October Say it was just a sip I can still tell the second Your mouth was on my lip [Chorus] Cider on your mouth That is how the night got in Sweet and a little burned Sugar riding on the wind Cider on your mouth I did not stand a chance You tasted like a season And I drank you like a man [Verse 2] There was a picnic table with names carved into the top Somebody loved somebody in 1998 You sat on the edge and you swung one boot and you would not stop Looking at me like looking was a thing you could take I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand like a kid Then I hated that I did it, like I wiped you off You laughed and you leaned and you did it again on purpose Left the proof on me And called it nothing soft [Pre-Chorus] Say it was just October Say it was just a dare I can still tell the second I stopped pretending I was air [Chorus] Cider on your mouth That is how the night got in Sweet and a little burned Sugar riding on the wind Cider on your mouth I did not stand a chance You tasted like a season And I drank you like a man [Verse 3] I have kissed better rooms and cleaner, safer years I have done the grown thing and I have done it well None of it had that orchard heat behind the teeth None of it made a common drink feel like a bell You can call it small You can call it a stand on a road You can keep the pretty version for the people you tell it to I keep the part where your mouth made a home On a mouth that did not know What it was walking into [Bridge] If I close my eyes I do not see a field I see the wet line on your bottom lip I see you notice that I noticed And refuse to give it back That is not romance in a magazine That is a theft I paid for with my sleep You put a season on your mouth And I have been thirsty ever since [Breakdown] Don't talk Just come here Don't name it Let it sit If the month had a flavor It was this It was this It was this [Chorus] Cider on your mouth That is how the night got in Sweet and a little burned Sugar riding on the wind Cider on your mouth I did not stand a chance You tasted like a season And I drank you like a man [Final Chorus] Cider on your mouth Do not clean the story up I want the sticky truth I want the paper cup Cider on your mouth If you tell it, tell it right You kissed the fall into me And I have worn it every night [Outro] Cup gone Stand closed Taste stays I touch my lip Like a fool Like a man Who knew And drank anyway
