Verse 1
There’s lipstick on my whiskey glass
And smoke in my lungs
You said goodbye without a sound
Like you’d already done
I watched the clock bleed into dawn
On a chipped motel wall
I held your name inside my mouth
But never made the call
Chorus
These are ashtray confessions
I don’t say out loud
Burning every truth I got
Till there’s nothing now
These are ashtray confessions
Spoken through regret
If I loved you any harder
I’d be dead by yet
Verse 2
Your shadow sleeps beside my coat
On this cold motel floor
I count my sins in half-empty packs
Can’t remember who for
The jukebox hums a dying tune
Like it knows my face
I keep waiting on forgiveness
In the wrong damn place
Chorus (repeat)
These are ashtray confessions
I don’t say out loud
Burning every truth I got
Till there’s nothing now
These are ashtray confessions
Spoken through regret
If I loved you any harder
I’d be dead by yet
Outro
The fire died before I did
That’s the truth I kept