

Prompt / Lyrics
[Intro] Quiet kitchen light Two mugs Only one stain on the rim Oboe in the hallway air Like you might walk back in [Verse 1] Your sweater on the back of that chair I keep tripping on the empty space there Talk to your side of the bed each night Ask if you’re warm Ask if you’re alright [Chorus] I’m waiting on the edge of a word you’ll never say Half in this house Half in yesterday One hand on the phone Like you might still text my name I’m standing in the doorway of a life we never finished Waiting on the edge Of all the things you didn’t get to say [Verse 2] Doctor’s note still stuck to the fridge I trace the circles where you wrote your wish The dog still rushes every time keys shake Then looks past me Like I’m the mistake [Chorus] I’m waiting on the edge of a world that will not bend Counting every sunrise That you don’t get to end I set you a plate Then put it back again I’m standing in the doorway of a life we never finished Waiting on the edge Of learning how to breathe in this new skin [Bridge] They say time will turn this hurt to a softer shade But your coffee spoon Your Sunday shoes Keep calling out your name If heaven has a window If you’re looking through Tell me how to do this Tell me what you’d choose [Chorus] I’m waiting on the edge of a prayer that feels too small Talking to the ceiling Answering your call One step from the dark One step from the fall I’m standing in the doorway of a life we almost finished Waiting on the edge Waiting on the edge Of learning how to live with loving you at all
Tags
folk, Glossy Nashville-country ballad with lush strings, gentle oboe lines, and intimate acoustic guitar. Female vocals, warm and close in the verses; bigger, soaring tone in the choruses. Subtle pedal steel swells and piano doubles the guitar on key emotional phrases. Random-feeling key lifts between sections to heighten the sense of unstable grief. Final chorus blooms with stacked harmonies and a high string countermelody, then falls to a fragile, near-a cappella outro., country, acoustic
3:04
No
2/28/2026