Ashes Where You Stood

Found your jacket on the chair

Coffee stain

Sleeve still torn from that last show

Nothing’s changed

Fridge light hums on an empty room

Your boots still lined up

Like you’ll be back soon

I scream your name into the cold

Tear my throat just to feel you hold

On to echoes

On to blood

On to ashes where you stood

If you can hear me through the flood

Drag me out or drown me in your love

I stand alone in rotting wood

Praying to ashes where you stood

Kept your number in my phone

Can’t press call

Scroll the messages at 3 a.m

Watch them crawl

Through every fight

Every stupid phrase

Tastes like rust now

Cut me both ways

[low vocal register] Put the flowers on the stone

Rain turns dirt to clay

I claw the ground like it’s a door

You’re one breath away

[guttural] Take this heart

Tear it apart

If it brings you back

I’ll bleed it black

[full voice] I wear your name across my chest

And curse the sky that took the rest