Paper Hearts & Coffee Stains

Verse 1

You left your cup on the windowsill

Half gone, but it’s warmer still

Like you knew I’d come back for it

Even if I tried to quit

There’s a note in your messy hand

Drawn in lines I don’t understand

But I keep it in my coat

Like a word you never spoke

Pre-Chorus

And I don’t know where this goes

But I’m scared to let it go

Chorus

‘Cause we’re paper hearts and coffee stains

Spilling out in messy ways

And I’d tape us up a thousand times

If it means you’d still be mine

I’m no good at letting go

I just build what I don’t know

And if we fall apart again

I’ll rebuild us in the end

Verse 2

You laugh like it’s all a joke

But I hear it when your voice goes broke

Like there’s something underneath

That you’re scared to show to me

And I’m not good with perfect lines

Or saying things at the right time

But I’ll stay when it gets hard

Even with a fragile heart

Pre-Chorus

And I know we bend, we break

But we’re stronger in the cracks we make

Chorus

‘Cause we’re paper hearts and coffee stains

Spilling out in messy ways

And I’d tape us up a thousand times

If it means you’d still be mine

I’m no good at letting go

I just build what I don’t know

And if we fall apart again

I’ll rebuild us in the end

Bridge (soft, intimate, almost spoken)

If all we are is bits and pieces

Held together by what we believe in

Then I’ll keep believing

Even when it’s barely holding

Final Chorus (slightly bigger, layered harmonies)

Yeah, we’re paper hearts and coffee stains

Learning love in borrowed ways

And I’d hold you through the in-between

Of everything we’ve never been

I’m no good at letting go

But you’re the only home I know

And if we fall apart again

I’ll rebuild us in the end

Outro (gentle, fading acoustic)

Just rebuild us in the end

Like we always said we can