I heard you planted roots somewhere
With someone’s daughter in your care
They say she built you white-picked dreams—
Gave you wings I couldn’t bear to see
Old friend that shadow in your stare—
Ain’t like you to hide what’s there
Forgive this ghost upon your stair…
I swore I wouldn’t come I had to come
Just needed you to glimpse this face
To taste the past we can’t erase
For you it’s over For me—
It’s fine I’ll trace a shape like yours in time
I’ll pour my heart in someone’s wine
But promise you’ll recall my name
When August burns with our old flame
You said love stays…
But love just stains
Yeah you said love stays…
But love just stains
Remember how the years collapsed
One Tuesday—fireflies and laughs
We thought that gold could never rust
Two kids baptized in summer dust
(Pre-Chorus)
So here I haunt your front porch light
A wound that never learned to fight
For you it’s over For me—
It’s fine I’ll trace a shape like yours in time
I’ll pour my heart in someone’s wine
But swear you’ll say my name aloud
When autumn pulls you through the crowd
You said love stays…
But love just stains
Oh you said love stays…
But love just stains
No shade compares to our young trees
No ache as sweet as what we freed
Regrets They’re just old melodies…
Cinnamon and ash
Who knew goodbye could taste like that
It’s fine I’ll trace a shape like yours in time
I’ll stitch my heart to someone’s rhyme
But when her kiss feels like the sun
Whisper the damage we have done
You said love stays…
But love just stains
(Oh love just stains…)
It’s fine…I’ll find…
A silhouette that moves like you did through the room…
Just…
Don’t let me fade in your museum…
You said love stays…
But love just leaves these paper cuts…
Paper cuts…