I Left the Lights On
Intro
Verse 1
I know you heard a story,
and you were young when it was told,
and you needed something steady
and a story you could hold.
I won't stand up and fight it.
I won't call anybody wrong.
I just wrote down what happened,
and I put it in a song.
Verse 2
I don't know what to tell you.
I never really have.
So I wrote down every year of it,
every single piece I had.
It's all there when you're ready.
Play them out of order, too.
I'm not asking you to believe me,
just to listen till it's through.
Chorus
And you won't have to knock.
There'll be nobody home.
But I left the lights on
in every song I wrote.
Whatever you were told,
whatever you decide,
it's all still here, love.
Come inside.
Verse 3
It was never your fault, not any of it.
You were never too much to keep.
And I never stopped loving you, not for a day,
not awake and not asleep.
They took the chance to tell you,
so I said it the only way:
one song at a time, and I left them here
for whenever you find your way.
Chorus
And you won't have to knock.
There'll be nobody home.
But I left the lights on
in every song I wrote.
Whatever you were told,
whatever you decide,
it's all still here, love.
Come inside.
Bridge
I know what it is to knock on a door
and hear nobody come,
so I built you a house out of all that I was,
and I left every light on.
Final Chorus
So you won't have to knock.
There'll be nobody home.
But I left the lights on
in every song I wrote.
If you came late, you're not too late.
Whatever you decide,
it's all still here, love.
Come inside.
Outro
The lights are on.
Come in.