[Verse 1] You leave your blue cup by the window Like a small claim on the day I turn it once against the morning Then put it back the same old way The radiator clicks in quarters Your coat keeps the shape of your shoulder I say I’m fine to the empty room And hear the lie get a little bolder [Pre-Chorus] We trade our names like borrowed jackets Wear them loose, wear them thin Every door we close between us Lets another version in [Chorus] By the window, where the hours change their faces I can almost see us standing in our places You were you and I was learning how to stay Now the glass gives both of us away By the window, let the afternoon decide What we keep and what we leave on either side [Verse 2] Your book is open to a sentence With the corner folded down I read it twice and miss the meaning As the buses cross the town I’ve been carrying your silence Like a coin beneath my tongue It tastes like all the things we promised Before either of us knew what we’d become [Pre-Chorus] We trade our names like borrowed jackets Wear them loose, wear them thin Every door we close between us Lets another version in [Chorus] By the window, where the hours change their faces I can almost see us standing in our places You were you and I was learning how to stay Now the glass gives both of us away By the window, let the afternoon decide What we keep and what we leave on either side [Bridge] Maybe there’s no clean dividing line No before that stays before Just your handprint fading from the glass And my hand reaching for the door [Instrumental Break] [Final Chorus] By the window, where the hours change their faces I can almost see us standing in our places You were you and I was learning how to stay Now the glass gives both of us away By the window, let the afternoon decide What we keep and what we leave on either side [Outro] Your blue cup catches one last stripe of day I leave it where you left it anyway
