[Verse 1]
Used to sign my name on linen
Gold pen
Shaking every hand
Mama smiled from the front row table
Like I’d pulled the moon down with my hands
Silk suit
Sweetheart on my shoulder
Laugh lines carved from lucky days
Now it’s coffee in a chipped white saucer
Counting cracks in the window frame
[Chorus]
Now it’s only me
Just this man I never wanted to meet
When the headlines fade
When the bright ones leave
I’m the last light flickering on my street
I had everything they said you need to win
But the mirror keeps on asking where I’ve been
Lost the world
Lost the crowd
Lost her breath on my skin
All I got
All I got
Is this only man I’m left here living in
[Verse 2]
Kept the house with the tall white columns
Marble stairs
Wide as my pride
Echoed like a train at midnight
Every time she’d say goodbye
Friends were full glasses and flashbulbs
Phones that rang till they ran dry
Now the landlord hums my greatest hits
While he waits for me to sign
[Chorus]
Now it’s only me
Just this man I never wanted to meet
When the headlines fade
When the bright ones leave
I’m the last light flickering on my street
I had everything they said you need to win
But the mirror keeps on asking where I’ve been
Lost the world
Lost the crowd
Lost her breath on my skin
All I got
All I got
Is this only man I’m left here living in
[Bridge]
So pull up a chair to this quiet
Pour one for the ghost of who I was (oh, pour it out)
If all of that glitter was borrowed
Maybe this aching is the truest part of us
[Chorus]
Now it’s only me
Just this man I finally start to meet
When the headlines fade
When the bright ones leave
I’m the last light flickering on my street
I had everything they swore would drown the sting
But the silence taught me what the noise can’t bring
Lost the world
Lost the crown
Lost her breath on my skin
All I got
All I got
Is this only man I’m learning to live in
[Outro]
All I got
All I got (oh, that’s it)
Is this only man I’m left here living in