Pocket change

Verse 1

I keep my quarters in a coffee can,

Rust on the lid, but it still holds tight,

Same old boots by the back door stand,

Mud on the soles from another night.

I ain’t proud of the ways I ran,

Or the things I couldn’t say,

I learned too late that love don’t wait

On a man paid in pocket change.

Pre-Chorus

I told myself I’d get it right tomorrow,

But tomorrow always looked like rain.

Chorus

I was counting dimes when you needed gold,

Counting miles instead of days,

You were building a home in your tired bones,

I was living life halfway.

Now you’re gone like the wind through pines,

And I’m stuck with the truth I learned too late—

Some things cost more than a working man’s pride

And a heart full of pocket change.

Verse 2

I see your name on the back of trucks,

In diner booths and faded songs,

Every prayer I never spoke

Still hums when the radio’s on.

You said, “I don’t need much, just honesty,”

God, I wish I’d heard that then,

I was chasing storms and calling it free

While you were waiting on a man.

Pre-Chorus

I thought love was something I could outrun,

Turns out it’s something I let go.

Chorus

I was counting dimes when you needed gold,

Counting miles instead of days,

You were building a home in your tired bones,

I was living life halfway.

Now you’re gone like the wind through pines,

And I’m stuck with the truth I learned too late—

Some things cost more than a working man’s pride

And a heart full of pocket change.

Bridge

If I ever get rich in the ways that count,

I’ll be poor in regret no more,

But money don’t buy back the nights

You walked crying out the door.

So I’ll tip my hat to the ghost of you

Every time it rains downtown,

I finally learned what it means to lose

What you never meant to gamble around.

Chorus (Soft)

I was counting dimes when you needed gold,

Counting miles instead of days,

You were building a home in your tired bones,

I was living life halfway.

Outro

Now the coffee can’s empty, the boots still worn,

Same old man, just more to change,

If loving you was the debt I owed,

I paid it off with pocket change.