Lyric

You leave your glass beside the blue lamp

A little red on the rim

The waiter folds the linen slowly

As if the room might dim

I know the shape of your silence

The pause before you smile

You make a small confession

Then let it linger awhile

Stay until the coffee cools

Stay until the last chair turns

There are things your eyes reveal

That my careful mouth still learns

If the night must take you home

Let it take you soft and slow

Leave your hand inside of mine

Before you go

The record skips by half a heartbeat

You laugh and blame the rain

A taxi writes a yellow circle

Across the windowpane

Your perfume clings to my jacket

Like paper holds a name

I promised I would not remember

And remembered just the same

Stay until the coffee cools

Stay until the last chair turns

There are things your eyes reveal

That my careful mouth still learns

If the night must take you home

Let it take you soft and slow

Leave your hand inside of mine

Before you go

No grand design, no borrowed vow

Just this small table, here and now

Your shoulder near, the room grows wide

And every door can wait outside

Stay until the coffee cools

Stay until the last chair turns

There are things your eyes reveal

That my careful mouth still learns

If the night must take you home

Let it take you soft and slow

Leave your hand inside of mine

Before you go

Before you go

Before you go