Where you leave me

The air still tastes like yesterday Your jacket’s hanging where you left it I light a match, but it won’t stay The flame remembers you too well Your ghost sits quiet on the chair Like it’s still waiting to be seen I talk to you in every prayer And call it something in between You look at me like I’m a house you’re selling Windows open, wind keeps telling— If you go, I’ll follow slow Like autumn leaves in your shadow If you change, I’ll fade the same ’Cause I don’t know who I am without your name And if you leave, I’ll stay right here Where you leave me, disappear The coffee’s cold, your side’s untouched The clock forgot to count the hours I see your face in everything The rain, the dust, the dying flowers You used to speak like thunder rolls Now silence sounds too much like peace I’d rather drown inside your storm Than learn the quiet means release You reach for light I cannot follow And I’m left holding only shadows— If you go, I’ll follow slow Like autumn leaves in your shadow If you change, I’ll fade the same ’Cause I don’t know who I am without your name And if you leave, I’ll stay right here Where you leave me, disappear I carved your voice into my chest So I could keep you when you rest But every heartbeat sounds like proof That I’ve become the echo of you One day you’ll drive through some small town And see my ghost behind the glass You’ll feel a pull you can’t explain Then keep on driving, never ask And I’ll still wait where you left me then In the soft collapse of what we were Half a person, half a prayer Still whispering your name to the dirt If you go, I’ll follow slow… Where you leave me, I’ll still go. If you go, I'll follow slow Like autumn leaves in your shadow If you change, I'll fade the same 'Cause I don't know who I am without your name And if you leave, I'll stay right here Where you leave me, disappear