[Intro - Female] We wore each other's costumes and the night got honest anyway [Verse 1 - Female rap] Halloween porch, bowl of candy, cheap fog machine I put on his flannel and his old work jeans He put on my jacket and a lipstick I applied badly on purpose so the joke would not hide We wore each other's costumes like a dare to the street Kids did not care. The night did. It was sweet and strange to see him in my city silhouette and stranger to feel country sitting on me yet like it belonged. I rapped the doorbell lines He did the country thank-you in a voice that was mine for a minute. Then we dropped the act on the walk back to the truck with the candy and the talk that did not need a mask. We wore each other's costumes then we took them off without losing the bloom [Pre-Chorus - Female sung] I can play a part I can wear your life I still want the person underneath the night [Verse 2 - Male country] She looked like she had lived here in my broken-in shirt I looked like I had missed a train and a little dirt would not save me. We laughed at the mirror by the door We wore each other's costumes. I wanted more than the joke. I wanted the girl in my clothes to keep the clothes. To keep the night. To keep the road that leads back to this porch when the kids are gone Halloween is a costume. She is not one I said that out loud and she went quiet then kind We wore each other's costumes and I did not mind looking foolish if it meant she saw me clear Paint off, flannel off, still standing here [Pre-Chorus - Male sung] I can play a part I can wear your town I still want the woman when the mask comes down [Chorus - Both] We wore each other's costumes just to see if it would fit Your jacket on my shoulders my name in your mouth a bit We wore each other's costumes then the porch light told the truth It was never about the fabric it was always me and you We wore each other's costumes candy in the bowl, cold in the air If the night is a performance we can leave it on the stair We wore each other's costumes and we still chose the face underneath the joke in this rented little place [Verse 3 - Female rap] I have worn plenty of versions to get through a room This one was different. This one had room for the girl I am when nobody is scoring the look We wore each other's costumes like an open book that said I can borrow your world and still be me You can borrow my city and still be free to come home to a porch that does not need a theme Halloween ends. The feeling does not leave the seam of the flannel I folded and put back on the chair We wore each other's costumes. I am still there in the way I say your name without the lipstick grin The costume was a doorway. I walked in [Verse 4 - Male country] The last kids left with a handful and a thank you Bowl almost empty, fog machine done too We sat on the step in our own clothes again We wore each other's costumes. Now the night began for real. No audience. No candy. No bit Just a man and a woman and the nerve to admit the play was fun and the truth was better I want her in my shirt. I want the letter of this night to stay when November gets thin We wore each other's costumes. Let the real one win [Chorus - Both, bigger] We wore each other's costumes just to see if it would fit Your jacket on my shoulders my name in your mouth a bit We wore each other's costumes then the porch light told the truth It was never about the fabric it was always me and you We wore each other's costumes candy in the bowl, cold in the air If the night is a performance we can leave it on the stair We wore each other's costumes and we still chose the face underneath the joke in this rented little place [Bridge - Trade then Both] [Female] Take the lipstick off [Male] Take the flannel back [Female] Leave the feeling on [Male] I can live with that [Both] We wore each other's costumes then we put them down and the person left standing was the one we found [Verse 5 - Trade] [Female] Tell me you saw me when I was wearing your life [Male] Tell me you saw me when I was borrowing your night [Female] We wore each other's costumes—say it was more [Male] It was more. It is more. That is what it was for [Final Chorus - Both, loudest] We wore each other's costumes just to see if it would fit Your jacket on my shoulders my name in your mouth a bit We wore each other's costumes then the porch light told the truth It was never about the fabric it was always me and you We wore each other's costumes candy in the bowl, cold in the air If the night is a performance we can leave it on the stair We wore each other's costumes and we still chose the face underneath the joke in this rented little place [Outro - Both] Bowl empty porch light on costumes folded we are not gone
