Lyric

Your name hangs

On the rim of my cup

Sweet at first

Then it cuts me up

We met in rain

By a broken gate

You laughed like spring

Then turned to fate

Now the room leans

When your shadow turns

Every small light

Seems to burn

I keep my hands

In my coat all night

Like I’m holding

A last goodbye

Hold me in the aftertaste

Say it slow, then let it fade

Every kiss came bruised and bright

Still I reach for it at night

Hold me in the aftertaste

Different words, same falling place

You were rain on a windowpane

I was learning how to stay

This part changed

When the street went quiet

Your coat on the chair

Your voice in riot

The morning broke

Like a cup in two

And every shard

Pointed back to you

Now the room leans

When your shadow turns

Every small light

Seems to burn

I keep my hands

In my coat all night

Like I’m holding

A last goodbye

If you come back, come as a spark

Not a blaze that leaves me marked

I can bear the gentle ache

But not the way our summer breaks

If you come back, come as a spark

Different shape, same beating heart

Let the hurt be something kind

Let me keep you, let me find

I found your laugh

In a kettle’s steam

In the dented rim

Of a silver spoon

I don’t chase ghosts

I just walk their line

Till the hurt grows soft

And calls me mine

Hold me in the aftertaste

Say it low, then let it change

Every love has one dark seam

Every dream has teeth, it seems

If you come back, come as a spark

Not a blaze that leaves me marked

Let the hurt be something kind

Let me keep you, let me find