[Intro - Female] The jacket on the hook by the door like it lives here [Verse 1 - Female rap] I meant to grab it when I left on Sunday last Then the truck was running and the moment passed and the jacket on the hook stayed hanging like a vote I did not cast out loud. City wool on a county coat rack that already knew his flannel and his keys The jacket on the hook is a sentence that reads I will be back before I even said I would I saw it yesterday and I understood the difference between forgetting and leaving on purpose I left it. I liked the way the hallway surface looked with my life on it. I liked the small claim The jacket on the hook. Call it by its name It is not laundry. It is not a mess he has to hide It is me in his house when I am not inside [Pre-Chorus - Female sung] I could take it down I keep leaving it the hook already knows I am not done with it [Verse 2 - Male country] I walked past it four times before I let it stay A woman's jacket on my hook is a different day than a scarf she forgot. This one was a choice I made by not moving it. I liked the voice of the hallway saying she belongs in the wood The jacket on the hook did more than a speech could It told the empty house it was not empty now I hung my own coat next to it and somehow the pair looked finished. I did not text her why I just left the light on over that little sky of fabric and a hood. She will come for it or she will come for me. Either way it fit the season. Cold at the door, warm on the peg The jacket on the hook is a quiet kind of beg I am not too proud to keep [Pre-Chorus - Male sung] I could take it down I keep walking by the hook already knows I am not saying goodbye [Chorus - Both] The jacket on the hook is a key we did not cut A life hanging open that we have not named but everybody walking in can see it anyway The jacket on the hook is the thing I meant to say I am staying you are staying leave it where it is The jacket on the hook is the closest thing to his and hers without a speech without a ring, without a plan The jacket on the hook is the shape of the span we already crossed when August gave out [Verse 3 - Female rap] I came back Wednesday and I reached for it, then stopped Let it hang. Let the hook keep what we have got that is still too new for drawers and too true for the car The jacket on the hook is how you know you are not visiting. Visiting takes everything home This stays. This waits. This is a small chrome fact in a hallway that used to only hold him I can live with that. I can live with the rim of my sleeve showing next to his work coat The jacket on the hook is the sentence I wrote without ink. I will write the rest in time For now the hook is enough. The hook is the climb [Verse 4 - Male country] My mama saw it when she dropped off a tin She did not ask whose. She just took it in and smiled like the hallway had finally grown up The jacket on the hook. I poured her a cup and I did not explain. Some things explain themselves A coat that stays is a person who delves into a house and finds a reason not to run The jacket on the hook. November almost done and winter at the glass. Let it hang. Let it mean she has a place here. Let the hook stay clean enough for one more thing if she ever brings it I will make the room. I will not fling it into a closet like a secret. Leave it in the light [Chorus - Both, bigger] The jacket on the hook is a key we did not cut A life hanging open that we have not named but everybody walking in can see it anyway The jacket on the hook is the thing I meant to say I am staying you are staying leave it where it is The jacket on the hook is the closest thing to his and hers without a speech without a ring, without a plan The jacket on the hook is the shape of the span we already crossed when August gave out [Bridge - Trade then Both] [Female] Leave it hanging [Male] Leave it seen [Female] Leave the hallway [Male] Leave the scene [Both] The jacket on the hook is the house telling the truth we already live in the early proof [Verse 5 - Trade] [Female] Tell me you wanted it there when I reached and let go [Male] Tell me you wanted the hook to be the way we show [Female] The jacket on the hook—say it can stay the season [Male] It can stay the year. That is the only reason [Final Chorus - Both, loudest] The jacket on the hook is a key we did not cut A life hanging open that we have not named but everybody walking in can see it anyway The jacket on the hook is the thing I meant to say I am staying you are staying leave it where it is The jacket on the hook is the closest thing to his and hers without a speech without a ring, without a plan The jacket on the hook is the shape of the span we already crossed when August gave out [Outro - Both] Hood on the peg keys in the bowl jacket on the hook this is the whole
