Frost On The Ivory Keys

Coffee gone cold on the windowsill

Sun never rises

It just turns pale

You tap out chords on the table

Like you're spelling out a farewell

Your suitcase leans by the doorway

My heartbeat stumbles on four

You say it's only a short break

But the silence is asking for more (hey)

Frost on the ivory keys

You left your song inside of me

Every note is cracking

But I still keep playing

Frost on the ivory keys

Wish I could warm you back to me

If I play it louder

Would you start staying?

We learned to dance in our wool socks

Spinning on splinters and old floor scars

You hummed that line out of nowhere

Now it’s stuck in all of my parts

I hear it float through the hallway

In every creak of the boards

You’re halfway gone on the runway

I’m halfway lost in the chords

Frost on the ivory keys

You left your song inside of me

Every note is cracking

But I still keep playing

Frost on the ivory keys

Wish I could warm you back to me

If I play it louder

Would you start staying?

If you turn around at the terminal gate

Will the rhythm of us rearrange all your plans?

I will be here in the dark

In this room

Hands on the wrong notes

Calling you back

Frost on the ivory keys

You left your song inside of me

Every note is cracking

But I still keep playing (still playing)

Frost on the ivory keys

Echoes where your laughter used to be

If I play it louder

Will you come home singing?