SEATTLE BLUES [Verse 1] Rain knows my first name. Calls it through the gutters. The city wears flannel like it forgot how to heal. Streetlights bloom nicotine halos, flickering over wet concrete. Every puddle keeps a portrait of someone who couldn’t leave. You kissed me like an exit sign— beautiful, and only useful when everything’s on fire. We kept calling it forever because neither of us could afford another word. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Hope always looked best right before it disappeared. ⸻ [Chorus] Seattle blues… Coffee gone cold. God left the porch light on— but nobody came home. Seattle blues… Heaven leaks through. Some hearts rust. Mine just learned how to bloom in the blue. Seattle blues… Seattle… Blue. ⸻ [Verse 2] Your leather jacket still hangs on my chair like grief learned how to keep a shape. The record keeps skipping the part where we survive. Maybe that’s the truest thing it’s ever had to say. Everybody wants salvation. Nobody wants Tuesday. Nobody tattoos the ordinary ache— only the scars that learned how to spell themselves. The sky kept swallowing airplanes. I kept swallowing apologies. Neither one ever landed. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Maybe longing is love after hope packs its bags. ⸻ [Chorus] Seattle blues… Coffee gone cold. God left the porch light on— but nobody came home. Seattle blues… Heaven leaks through. Some hearts rust. Mine just learned how to bloom in the blue. Seattle blues… Seattle… Blue. ⸻ [Bridge] If loneliness had weather, it would sound like this. An unplugged amplifier. A motel Bible missing half of Genesis. Maybe we’re all just cathedrals after closing— still holy, still empty, still waiting for footsteps that forgot the address. ⸻ [Final Chorus] Seattle blues… Coffee gone cold. God left the porch light on— but nobody came home. Seattle blues… Ash in my lungs. Your name tastes like rain I never outran. Seattle blues… Some cities save you. Some teach you how to survive yourself. Seattle blues… Seattle… Blue. ⸻ [Outro] The rain never asked me to become somebody else. Maybe that’s why I kept coming back. Seattle blues… Seattle… Blue.
