Cold Coffee Rail

The porch light’s humming softly tonight Crickets stitching silver through the pines Coffee’s gone cold on the rail beside us But nobody seems to mind You don’t ask questions I can’t answer Don’t chase storms I haven’t named Just sit beside me in the silence Like you’re guarding a fragile flame ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] And the world gets loud enough to shake the walls Some days it feels like I’ll disappear ⸻ [Chorus] But you stay Like lanterns in the dark Like steady hands around a breaking heart No speeches, no saving grace Just your quiet presence in this place When shadows gather at the edge of me And old ghosts whisper things I shouldn’t believe You pull up a chair and let the night pass through That’s how I know love is true ⸻ [Verse 2] There’s comfort in the smallest moments A laugh escaping through tired eyes The way you notice when I’m fading Before I ever realize You know the shape of all my weather The rain I hide beneath my skin And somehow still you keep choosing To walk those roads again ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] The stars aren’t brighter than they’ve always been I just remember how to see them here ⸻ [Chorus] Because you stay Like lanterns in the dark Like steady hands around a breaking heart No grand rescue, no battle cry Just your warmth beside the midnight sky When shadows gather at the edge of me And old ghosts whisper things I shouldn’t believe You pull up a chair and let the night pass through That’s how I know love is true ⸻ [Bridge] Maybe healing isn’t thunder Maybe peace arrives this way In the hush between two heartbeats In somebody choosing to remain [breath] When the world feels cold and endless And the road runs out of view The light I keep returning to Is you ⸻ [Final Chorus] You stay Like lanterns in the dark Like steady hands around a breaking heart No spotlight shining overhead Just gentle words and coffee steam instead When darkness tries to pull me underneath You remind me I am more than what I grieve And every quiet moment proves it true I made it through because of you ⸻ [Outro] Fingerpicked guitar and distant fiddle linger Campfire crackles softly Crickets continue singing [whisper] “Thank you for staying…” Fade into midnight ambience. 🌙🕯️🎻