When the streetlights catch your jacket
I forget to play it cool
Every doorway feels like Saturday
And I'm showing up for you
The city keeps its windows open
We don't pick the quieter street
If somebody looks I'm not hiding
I like walking next to me and you
Let them see
How I look at you
Let them see
I don't need to hide
Take my hand in the open air
Let them see tonight
Your laugh is louder than the traffic
I keep matching it in time
We could take the long way home still
I just want you on my side
Let them see
How I look at you
Let them see
I don't need to hide
Take my hand in the open air
Let them see tonight
I used to keep the good thing pocketed
Like a secret I could lose
Now I'd rather spend it in the daylight
If the whole block wants to watch they can watch us
Let them see
How I look at you
Let them see
I don't need to hide
Take my hand in the open air
Let them see tonight
##v2-after-loss-rnb —After I Knew
The voicemail still says both our names
I practice saying only mine
The city didn't change its corners
I just learned to read the signs
I keep the map
I lost the way
The rooms are true
The talk is late
After I knew
The quiet had a shape
After I knew
I stopped calling it wait
I kept the map
I lost the way
After I knew
I replay the almosts in the hallway
Then I let the almosts go
Not a speech not a movie ending
Just a fact I finally know
After I knew
The quiet had a shape
After I knew
I stopped calling it wait
I kept the map
I lost the way
After I knew
##v3-still-worry-rnb —The Lights You Keep
Do you still leave the hallway lamp
For nobody coming home
Do you still hum that off-key chorus
When the kitchen radio's on
I still worry in the small ways
Not the movie kind
I still check the weather
Where you used to drive
If the lights you keep
Are still on tonight
I don't need the whole story back
I just notice what remains
A jacket on a chair that isn't
A name I don't say out loud these days
I still worry in the small ways
Not the movie kind
I still check the weather
Where you used to drive
If the lights you keep
Are still on tonight
If you're fine then I'll be quieter
If you're not I won't pretend
I can miss you without calling
And still hope your lights are on at the end
I still worry in the small ways
Not the movie kind
If the lights you keep
Are still on tonight
##v4-organic-soul —Soft Harm
I can hold you like a Sunday
And still leave a mark
Your name is honey in the hallway
And thunder in the dark
We don't need a villain
We don't need a saint
Just the truth of how we break
And how we wait
It's a soft harm
The kind that stays
A gentle hand
A heavier day
I don't need a verdict
I don't need a crown
Just the room where love and trouble
Sit down
I keep reaching for the warmer word
Then I tell the colder one
Both of them are honest
Neither one can make this undone
It's a soft harm
The kind that stays
A gentle hand
A heavier day
I don't need a verdict
I don't need a crown
Just the room where love and trouble
Sit down
If we last it won't be pretty
If we don't it won't be clean
I can love you with the lights on
And still know what the dark has been
It's a soft harm
The kind that stays
A gentle hand
A heavier day
##v5-alt-rnb —Catch Myself
I almost pressed your name again
Then I put the phone face down
The song we skipped is playing somewhere
Two rooms over in this town
I catch myself
On the second look
I catch myself
Closing out the thread
If I say your name too softly
I'll mean it
So I don't
Blue light on the ceiling
I rehearse a quieter no
I can want you in a small way
And still let the wanting go
I catch myself
On the second look
I catch myself
Closing out the thread
If I say your name too softly
I'll mean it
So I don't
Not a speech not a midnight drive
Just a thumb above the send
I put the phone back on the table
And I do not pick it up again
I catch myself
On the second look
I catch myself
Closing out the thread
If I say your name too softly
I'll mean it
So I don't
