[verse 1] My sister’s name still hangs like hymn smoke In the kitchen light where the good days broke Bare feet dancing on the hardwood grain Before the pills came carving out her name. [verse 2] Now Mama sleeps with the hallway lamp Like light alone can bring her back Daddy talks tough, says she’ll find her way Then cries in the truck where the night can’t say. [chorus] And I don’t know how to hold it Watching blood turn thin, watching home go broken She’s somewhere chasing ghosts we’ll never catch While we’re patching holes she keeps punching back God, I miss the girl she was before all that. [verse 3] There’s a photograph on the Frigidaire Her gap-toothed smile and her county fair Blue ribbon tied in her summer hair Now we speak her name like a whispered prayer. [verse 4] Every phone call hits like freezing rain ‘Cause bad news don’t knock, it knows our names Hospital halls and borrowed grace Learning rock bottom’s got a thousand shapes. [chorus] And I don’t know how to stop it How to love her hard without going with it She’s burning bridges just to feel their ash While we’re standing in the smoke she casts God, I miss the girl we were all built around. [verse 5] Mama says addiction’s like a thief It steals her face but leaves her teeth Daddy says anger keeps him strong But I’ve heard him breaking when he thinks we’re gone. [verse 6] And me, I wear her chaos deep Like if I stay awake, she might still breathe Like somehow guilt’s a faithful thread If I pull hard enough, I could raise the dead. [bridge] So I check my phone like a loaded gun Praying tonight ain’t the night she’s done And I hate those words, but they haunt me still Love shouldn’t come dressed like a death wish will. [final chorus] I don’t know how to name it This grief with a pulse, this love stained sacred She’s still my sister through the wreckage yet Beneath the track marks and the silhouettes And I’ll keep reaching for her hand through it. [outro] So if you see her, tell her home’s still here Even if it shakes, even drowned in fear Tell her Mama’s light’s still on out back. Tell her Daddy kept her old bike chain And I still say her name like summer rain Like maybe one day she’ll come riding back. [final line, voice only] Come riding back. Come riding back.
