Asking Time to Leave You In

[Verse] The porch light stays on after ten I tell myself it’s just the rain Your coat is hanging by the door I never moved it, never will The radio still knows your song I let it play a little long The coffee cools the way it did When you were late and I pretended [Chorus] I don’t need another year I don’t need a better reason I just need the quiet proof That you were real inside this season If love is only what remains Then every room still says your name I’m not asking you to come I’m asking time to leave you in [Verse] The garden grew without your hands The roses don’t remember plans I talk to you in smaller words The kind we used when no one heard Some nights I almost call it peace Then something ordinary breaks A cup, a key, a half-written note And suddenly the house is late [Chorus] I don’t need another year I don’t need a better reason I just need the quiet proof That you were real inside this season If love is only what remains Then every room still says your name I’m not asking you to come I’m asking time to leave you in [Cello Solo] extended emotional cello solo, no vocals, long mournful melody, slow and exposed, let it breathe [Bridge] They say the living have to go They say the living have to know But knowing never filled a chair And truth is thinner than the air [Chorus] I don’t need another year I don’t need a better ending I just need the smallest thing A door that still believes you’re coming If love is only what remains Then let it stay, and let it ache I’m not asking you to come I’m asking time to leave you in