© Copyright TongMick Thank you for listening! ♡😽 *************************** Verse 1 You left your coat on the back of the chair, sleeve still bent like your arm was there. Mugs with rings of old conversations, dust in the air like slow translations. Bedroom wall with your shadow’s seam, bedspread torn by your restless knees. Streetlight cracks through the half-closed blind, draws a map of where you slept across my spine. Verse 2 I walk the block, kids are chalkin planets, hopscotch hearts and crooked fanatics. They are laughin like the rain’s a friend, like the ground beneath their shoes could never end. I feel that sound in the backs of my eyes, like a song I almost knew in another life. All the twisted little futures we kept folded in the drawer fell like paper birds when you closed that door. Pre-Chorus I don’t know what you believe now, whose horizon you belong to, but I know the way you left here turned my colours into “used”. Chorus And I still see you in the way the evening falls, how it stains the tired brick like your hand along the wall. And I still hear you in the clatter of the trains, every window sliding past wears a fragment of your name. Verse 3 Your favourite book still asleep on the couch, pages bent where your thumb gave out. I read a line til the letters blur, somebody else’s lovers, but they all sound like her. A record spins though the needle’s gone, turntable hum like a distant storm. Silence sits at the edge of the chair, waitin for me to admit you’re not there. Pre-Chorus I don’t know about redemption, don’t know who gets out alive, but I know the dark is listenin every time I say you’re “fine”. Chorus And I still see you in the way the evening falls, how it stains the tired brick like your hand along the wall. And I still hear you in the clatter of the trains, every window sliding past wears a fragment of your name. All the love we couldn’t carry turned these rooms to shades of grey, tattooed every quiet surface with the things we couldn’t say. Outro Ooh… oh-oh… Starless rooms… starless rooms… You were light in a borrowed place… Ooh… ah-ah… All my colours… all my shades… Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh… Still here… still here… /\_/\ = ( • . • ) = / \
