[INTRO] [Clock ticking, soft electric piano] [VERSE 1] You said you’d be here at eight I watched the doorway breathe Every car that passed outside Made me think it might be me I counted cracks across the ceiling Counted headlights on the street By eight seventeen I knew You weren’t coming back to me [PRE-CHORUS] Funny how a minute changes When you’re waiting on a heart Seventeen can feel like forever When forever falls apart [CHORUS] I waited seventeen minutes Like seventeen years With a blue mailbox watching me And rain collecting tears There was a woman down the corner In a yellow coat alone Holding something red beneath her arm Like she was waiting too I waited seventeen minutes Then I finally went home [VERSE 2] I wrote your name on paper Then folded it away Some words are easier to carry When you never make them say The clock kept moving forward Like nothing had gone wrong But somewhere at eleven seventeen I heard that distant song [BRIDGE] Maybe you were waiting somewhere Maybe I was late Maybe we were standing On opposite sides of fate [FINAL CHORUS] I waited seventeen minutes But I waited all my life For someone to turn the corner For someone to make it right The blue mailbox stayed beside me The yellow coat disappeared And somewhere far beyond the city A train was all I heard [OUTRO] [Clock stops] Seventeen minutes. That’s all it took.
