Lyric

Your denim jacket’s hanging by the door

Like you might come back tonight

There’s a movie stub inside the pocket

From the last time we were right

I should’ve packed it with the photographs

And everything I couldn’t burn

But every time the sky starts raining

I still wait for your return

It smells like rain and gasoline

And every place we should’ve been

You left your jacket, I kept the cold

Kept every word that we never told

I wear it downtown when the night turns blue

It doesn’t keep me warm

It just feels like you

I swear I’m getting good at letting go

But you left your jacket

And I kept the cold

I passed our table at the corner bar

Someone else was sitting there

For half a second, through the window

I could almost see us there

Your sleeves still fall below my fingertips

The way they always used to do

Funny how an empty piece of clothing

Can still be full of you

Every thread remembers where you’ve been

I put it on—and lose you all again

You left your jacket, I kept the cold

Kept every word that we never told

I wear it downtown when the night turns blue

It doesn’t keep me warm

It just feels like you

I swear I’m getting good at letting go

But you left your jacket

And I kept the cold

Tonight I walked down to the river

With your jacket in my hands

Thought I’d let the current take it

Like the ending we had planned

But some goodbyes don’t happen all at once

Some hearts need time to know

So I carried your jacket home

And let that old movie ticket go

You left your jacket, I kept the cold

But I don’t need every story we told

I’ll wear it one last time beneath the city blue

It doesn’t keep me warm

And it won’t bring back you

Tomorrow, maybe I’ll take it from the door

You left your jacket

I won’t wait anymore

Your denim jacket’s hanging by the door

But I won’t wait anymore