[Verse 1] You fold the laundry Then you start to cry Socks on the carpet You never said goodbye Mug on the counter Lipstick on the rim Tiny Quiet endings Where did you go in them? [Chorus] Life ends In a waiting room chair Old magazines Life ends In a phone that keeps on buzzing in your jeans Not a curtain Not a choir Just a flicker Just a wire Life ends So I start my love like it’s the end [Verse 2] Your dad stopped driving Sold his rusted car Keys in a shoebox Silence in the yard You scroll through photos Thumb on younger eyes Try to freeze the moment But everything slides [Chorus] Life ends In a half-told joke Drifting off to sleep Life ends With a nurse who’s working weekends on her feet Not a movie Not a line Just an ordinary time Life ends So I live this day like it’s the end [Bridge] If it’s all sand through our hands Why am I saving the good plates? Why am I waiting to dance For some future perfect date? (oh) If every door is a last door Every breath a borrowed pen I’ll write your name on my next one Like it’s the last page Then— [Chorus] Life ends On an evening like this Dishes in the sink Life ends So I hold your face a little longer at the brink Not forever Just right now This is all that we’re allowed Life ends So I start my love like it’s the end
