It’s 2:17 Your shoes are by the door You said you’d leave an hour ago We both know you won’t There’s a cup between your hands You haven’t touched in a while We’re talking about nothing But you keep making me smile The kitchen light is too bright The whole street’s gone to sleep You tell me something stupid I hope I never forget No photograph No perfect song Nobody knows this is happening at all Maybe that’s what makes it ours Stay until the coffee gets cold Stay until we’ve said everything we don’t need to know Tell me that story I’ve heard before I’ll laugh in all the same places Once more We don’t have to make tonight mean anything Just don’t go yet Stay until the coffee gets cold You draw a little circle in the water on the table Ask me where we’ll be when we’re old I say— Hopefully somewhere with better chairs You laugh so hard you nearly spill your cup I’d like to remember you exactly like that No fireworks No grand design Just your tired eyes looking into mine Maybe the moments we hardly notice Are the ones we spend our lives trying to find Stay until the coffee gets cold Stay until the morning starts showing through the window Tell me your worries I’ll tell you mine We don’t have to solve them We’ve got time We don’t have to make tonight mean anything Just don’t go yet Stay until the coffee gets cold Someday this table might belong to somebody else Somebody else might paint these walls Maybe we’ll forget what we were talking about Maybe we’ll forget the weather The song on the radio The cups we used But I hope somewhere inside me I remember how safe nothing felt with you Maybe love isn’t always “I’ll never let you go” Maybe sometimes it’s— “Do you want another coffee?” Even though it’s far too late Stay… Yeah… I’ll make one too Stay until the coffee gets cold Stay until the sunlight finds us sitting here No big plans No promises Nothing we need to become Just another ordinary night I wouldn’t trade for anyone And if someday we wonder where the good years went Maybe they were here Maybe this was them Stay until the coffee gets cold Your coffee’s cold Mine too Good. Stay.
