California Sky (Bleeding White)

Summer stuck to my skin like a borrowed sin

Radio prayers and a soft nicotine grin

You said my name like you knew how it ends

Highway humming, we were younger then

Your shadow dancing on a motel wall

I swore I’d leave, but I stayed through it all

There’s a sun sinking low in your eye tonight

Burning holes in the things I hide

All the colors run when you say goodbye

Red, blue, gold — bleeding into white

I loved you slow, I loved you blind

Under a cruel California sky

Cherry-stained lips and a heart on delay

You talked about God like He moved to L.A.

I painted forever in cheap perfume

But forever faded by the end of June

You promised heaven, you handed me heat

Now I’m barefoot dancing with broken dreams

There’s a sun sinking low in your eye tonight

Melting truth into lullabies

All the colors run when you cross that line

Neon sins in the back of my mind

I loved you deep, I loved you wild

Like a hymn sung soft, then denied

If loving you was a beautiful lie

I’d tell it again just to feel alive

Blue in my veins, gold in my hair

Say you don’t care, say it like a prayer

The sun goes down, but I stay the same

Tracing your face in the windowpane

All the colors fade, but I still try

To see myself through your eye