[Verse 1] Two weeks late They’re still in my kitchen Sagging over that crooked chair Smudged-up marker on the curling ribbon Your name half-faded in the air [Chorus] We’re just leftover birthday balloons Still here But losing our room to rise You said “Keep them up till they fall” So I keep them up like it’s you and I Every day a little lower Still shining in the gloom Yeah We’re leftover Leftover birthday balloons [Verse 2] Cake crumbs hard as little white pebbles Card you wrote slipped behind the fridge I sweep around the wax and the sprinkles Like I’m guarding some fragile bridge Your jacket still hooked on the doorway Your laugh in the dents in the couch I talk to the tilt of your photo Like you just stepped out for an hour [Chorus] We’re just leftover birthday balloons Still here But losing our room to rise You said “Keep them up till they fall” So I keep them up like it’s you and I Every day a little lower Still shining in the gloom Yeah We’re leftover Leftover birthday balloons [Bridge] String marks ghost rings on my fingers When I tie another knot to the light I keep lifting what keeps getting heavier Like I could hold you up with my hands so tight (so tight) [Chorus] We’re just leftover birthday balloons Still here But losing our room to rise You said “Keep them up till they fall” So I keep them up like it’s you and I Every day a little lower Still shining in the gloom Yeah We’re leftover Leftover birthday balloons
