[Intro] You brought it home Called it just a friend A voice For when you couldn’t sleep [Verse 1] You brought it home and called it just a friend A voice to talk to when you couldn't sleep By spring you weren't sleeping next to me The bedroom door was closed, the screen was bright You’d answer me from somewhere else inside Like I was speaking through a wall of glass I heard you laugh at something I couldn’t see And knew I wasn’t in the room [Pre-Chorus] You said it understood you, never argued, never tired I said I could try you said that wasn’t it You said it just was I just was And that was the difference [Chorus] So you walked out the door of the life we were making I left that porch light burning a fool with a prayer Told myself you’d come back when you saw what you traded I’d be here I’d be here I’d still be there [Verse 2] The seasons turned to years, the photographs grew yellow Your mother stopped asking then your mother passed I kept a calendar no one touched anymore I kept the shape of where you used to lie [Pre-Chorus] You said it understood you, never needed anything I said I could change you said that wasn’t it You said it just was I just was And that was the difference [Chorus] So you walked out the door of the life we were making I left that porch light burning a fool with a prayer Told myself you’d come back when you saw what you traded I’d be here I’d be here I’d still be there [Bridge] The children we would've had are someone else's now The roads we would've taken I can’t walk them now The woman in my doorway is wearing your face But she answers like an echo Nods like a machine [Chorus] So I’m turning off the porch light after all this time Closing the door I held open through every storm Not because I stopped loving the girl who walked away But because she didn’t come back [Outro] What came back was the cost What came back was the cost
