Heartbreak Lockets

Dirt road

Moon like a busted lantern

Your name

Carved in my thumb like habit

One key

Hangs from the rear-view swinging

Thin chain

Cutting the dark between us

I got heartbreak lockets in my pocket

Tiny graves I carry 'round

Every promise, every whisper

Pressed in there, can’t make a sound

Out here on this frontier lonely

Wind keeps callin' what I lost

Heartbreak lockets in my pocket

Each one stamped with what you cost

Cold bed

Half of the quilt still waiting

Tin roof

Counting the storms you started

Your note

Folded and frayed from fingers

Three words

Burned but they never answered

I got heartbreak lockets in my pocket

Tiny graves I carry 'round

Every promise, every whisper

Pressed in there, can’t make a sound

Out here on this frontier lonely

Wind keeps callin' what I lost

Heartbreak lockets in my pocket

Each one stamped with what you cost

If I tear these chains and throw 'em

To the coyotes and the dust (oh, the dust)

Will you finally turn and leave me

Or haunt the empty like you must

I got heartbreak lockets in my pocket

Names I never speak out loud

Every memory like a bullet

All lined up and silver proud

Out here on this frontier lonely

Just your ghost and all this land

Heartbreak lockets in my pocket

And your ring mark on my hand

Echoes of the past, slipping through my hands

Heartbeat fading, lost where I stand

Got heart break lockets in my pocket, memories tightly spun

Holding onto echoes of the love that’s come undone

They were the only ones I trusted, now they're just dust

Fading into shadows, fading into rust

I reach for what was real, but it slips away

Silent tears falling, nightly by the day

Now you're gone and it's just dust, just empty air

Crumbled in my hands, nowhere to compare

Heart break lockets, memories unjust

Lost in the silence, lost in the dust

Where did we go wrong? Was it just fate?

Walking through the ashes, hoping it's not too late

Holding onto relics, stories of us

But all that’s left is just dust

Heart break lockets in my pocket, love’s refrain

Fading like the night, dissolving in the rain

Now you're gone and it's just dust, just dust