Lyric

Your front gate still leans like a tired old crown

Rain writes your address on the pavement down

I pass by slow in a borrowed coat

With apricot light in my throat

The mailbox holds one rusted key

And a moth in the shape of what used to be

Your porch swing creaks out the same old tune

Like it knows my shoes

I keep a small flood in my palm

A paper boat in a broken calm

If I knock, the house may sing

Or swallow the whole thing

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Gold on the glass, then it starts again

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Sweet on the tongue, then gone in the wind

I hold that shine like a borrowed flame

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Now your bus stop glows in a cracked-up frame

With a dented bench and a changed-up name

I buy two stamps from a sleepy man

And fold the day in my hand

The corner store has a song on repeat

Orange soda bubbles under my feet

I see your laugh in the freezer glass

Then the picture drifts past

I keep a small flood in my palm

A paper boat in a broken calm

If I knock, the house may sing

Or swallow the whole thing

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Gold on the glass, then it starts again

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Sweet on the tongue, then gone in the wind

I hold that shine like a borrowed flame

Apricot rain, apricot rain

By the river, the willows bend low

Like they’re teaching the moon where to go

I trace two paths in the muddy bank

Then the water blanks

Your old blue scarf on a fence post dry

Looks like a flag from a softer sky

I touch that thread and the night unwinds

Like a knot in time

I keep a small flood in my palm

A paper boat in a broken calm

If I knock, the house may sing

Or swallow the whole thing

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Gold on the glass, then it starts again

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Sweet on the tongue, then gone in the wind

I hold that shine like a borrowed flame

Apricot rain, apricot rain

If the orchard keeps one last fruit

Would it wait for a hand like mine?

If the train of clouds turns around

Would it stitch your steps to mine?

I heard the night in a mason jar

I shook it hard, still it stayed afar

So I let the lid breathe wide

And the dark walked out with the tide

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Gold on the glass, then it starts again

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Sweet on the tongue, then gone in the wind

I hold that shine like a borrowed flame

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Let it fall soft on the empty frame

Apricot rain, apricot rain

I keep the glow where your shadow was slain

Not a goodbye, not a refrain

Apricot rain, apricot rain

Your porch light blinks in a patient way

I leave the key and I walk away

With apricot rain on my sleeve tonight

And the long road bright