I kept your place (Unplugged)

[Intro] [Verse 1] The cushion kept a faded square long after I forgot your weight, I’d move the books, I’d move the flowers, somehow nothing ever stayed. Sunlight crossed it every morning, drawing seasons on the floor, and I stopped remembering exactly what I thought I saved it for. At first I called it loyalty, the kind that younger people wear when waiting still feels beautiful enough to make an absence fair. Years went by; the room got smaller, furniture came and disappeared but everybody learned somehow: don’t put anything there. [Pre-Chorus] I thought I kept it where you left it. Maybe that was true back then. Now I’m not sure who I’m protecting when I clear it off again. [Chorus] I KEPT YOUR PLACE LONG AFTER YOU WERE GONE, like leaving one small space untouched could keep something moving on. I KEPT YOUR PLACE THROUGH EVERY OTHER CHANGE, and I don’t even know if I would want you there today. This love left years ago. And habit took its shape. I only know I KEPT YOUR PLACE. [Instrumental] [Verse 2] A friend sat down there once by accident and I said, “Could you move?” too fast; she looked at me like people do when present tense collides with past. I laughed it off, blamed something stupid, watched her choose another chair, then spent the evening wondering why my body knew before I cared. Because I wasn’t seeing you there; that picture faded long ago. I was seeing who I used to be when wanting you was all I knew. She could make a whole religion from the possibility you’d come and maybe I kept feeding her because I couldn’t bear to watch her become someone I no longer was. [Pre-Chorus] I thought I kept it where you left it. That isn’t quite the truth. Maybe I kept one little corner where I could still be twenty-two. [Chorus] I KEPT YOUR PLACE LONG AFTER YOU WERE GONE, like leaving one small space untouched could keep something moving on. I KEPT YOUR PLACE THROUGH EVERY OTHER CHANGE, and I don’t even know if I would want you there today. This love left years ago. And habit took its shape. I only know I KEPT YOUR PLACE. [Interlude] I wasn’t saving it for you anymore. I think... I was saving who I’d been when I still thought you’d come. [Slow Guitar solo] [Final Chorus] I KEPT YOUR PLACE LONG AFTER YOU WERE GONE, like leaving one small space untouched could keep something moving on. I KEPT YOUR PLACE THROUGH EVERY OTHER CHANGE, and I don’t even know if I would want you there today. This love left years ago! And habit took its shape. I only know I KEPT YOUR PLACE. [Outro] I kept your place