Before The Sentence Falls

[Verse 1] Another call I carry all week A name I knew gone from the screen Their kitchen stands exactly the same Three plates that no one will touch again [Pre-Chorus] And I hold my breath through every ring Counting everyone I love who's still here Counting everyone until the fear Wraps quiet arms around the room [Chorus] Let me freeze this ordinary Tuesday Sun on the table coffee halfway Everyone healthy everyone warm Let me keep this day from ever turning Let me live inside this single morning Before the sentence falls on every form [Verse 2] I was raised to think my house was spared Some kind of mercy built into the walls But I've watched good people watch their world Unravel in a waiting room's long crawl [Pre-Chorus] So I memorize the sound they make The whole table laughing over nothing much And I hold it like a fragile cup That any January could shatter [Chorus] Let me freeze this ordinary Tuesday Sun on the table coffee halfway Everyone healthy everyone warm Let me keep this day from ever turning Let me live inside this single morning Before the sentence falls on every form [Bridge] I know the door could open any second I know the phone could carry any name So I stay inside the unremarkable The small warm rooms the ordinary plain Where right now right now right now They are all still near Where right now right now right now There is nothing left to fear [Chorus] Let me freeze this ordinary Tuesday Sun on the table coffee halfway Everyone healthy everyone warm Let me keep this day from ever turning Let me live inside this single morning Before the sentence falls on every form [Hook] (Before the sentence falls) (Before the sentence falls on all of us)