[Verse 1] Found your words in the kitchen drawer Folded up with the grocery list Coffee stain on a memory Smelled like salt Like you still exist [Pre-Chorus] You always said you’d leave a sign Something I would never miss Guess you found a glass shoreline In the middle of all this [Chorus] Like a message in a bottle on my table You wrote “I’m gone But I’m not gone for good” Every letter tilting Shaking as you’re able To say the thing you never said you could I hold the paper like it might still break Your message in a bottle That I opened too late [Verse 2] You drew waves in the margin lines Tiny boat that was almost tipped Underlined “I’ll be fine” twice Ink all blurred where the pen had slipped [Pre-Chorus] Did you write it in the parking lot Breath all fog on the dashboard glass Were you wishing I would call you back Or praying this was gonna pass [Chorus] Like a message in a bottle on my table You wrote “I’m gone But I’m not gone for good” Every letter tilting Shaking as you’re able To say the thing you never said you could I hold the paper like it might still break Your message in a bottle That I opened too late [Bridge] Maybe you’re somewhere by the water now (oh) Skipping stones you never let me see I read that note again and somehow Every line keeps washing over me [Chorus] Like a message in a bottle on my table You wrote “I’m gone But I’m not gone for good” Every letter tilting Shaking as you’re able To say the thing you never said you could I trace your name till the angles ache Your message in a bottle That I opened too late
