Leave the Lights On

[Verse 1] You still sleep closest to the door I still wake when the floorboards creak We joke about the old arrangement But the muscle memory runs deep Coffee’s on in the dented pot Your hand catches mine by mistake I flinch, you pause, we both keep moving Neither one of us breaks away [Pre-Chorus] We could pull the darkness back down Lay the silence over our heads We earned every shadow in these walls We’re done playing dead [Chorus] So leave the lights on Let me see your face Leave the lights on This imperfect place We don’t need perfect, we don’t need pretty We just need real, right here in the grey Leave the lights on This is how we stay [Verse 2 ] You still look up when I shut the drawer I still scan the room for the crack But now we name it when it happens We don’t let the silence push us back Your jacket’s on the chair again My keys hit hard on the counter tile Two ghosts who finally got tired of running We’re staying for a while [Pre-Chorus] We could vanish like we used to Fold ourselves small and clean But the house already knows our names And we’re done with the in-between [Chorus] So leave the lights on Let me see your face Leave the lights on This imperfect place We don’t need perfect, we don’t need pretty We just need real, right here in the grey Leave the lights on This is how we stay [Bridge] I thought love would look like healing Like the cracks all filled with gold Turns out it just looks like staying When the story’s already told No fixer, no savior, no clean slate Just two people who refuse to run This is how we love now With every single light left on [Final Chorus] So leave the lights on Let me see your face Leave the lights on This imperfect place We don’t need perfect, we don’t need pretty We just need real, right here in the grey Leave the lights on This is how we stay This is how we stay [Outro] Not gone Not quiet Leave the lights on We stay We stay