The Blue Cup

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Your blue cup’s still beside the sink A pale ring where the water dried I reach for it before I think Then leave it on your side [Pre-Chorus] The house keeps all the little things The coat hook, the uneven frame I’m learning how a room can hold A life that doesn’t stay the same [Chorus] So I’ll open up the curtains Let the morning cross the floor I can miss you and still make it Through the quiet of this door I won’t call the leaving wasted I won’t ask the past for more I can love what we were given And let you go [Verse 2] Your book is folded at page forty-two A ticket slips between the leaves I keep the parts that made me kinder And set down what I can’t retrieve [Pre-Chorus] The kettle clicks, the day begins A sparrow lands along the rail I take one breath, then one more in And find my hands are steady now [Chorus] So I’ll open up the curtains Let the morning cross the floor I can miss you and still make it Through the quiet of this door I won’t call the leaving wasted I won’t ask the past for more I can love what we were given And let you go [Bridge] If you think of me in autumn When the first cold finds your sleeve Know I’m grateful for the years And the courage it took to leave [Final Chorus] Now I’ll open up the curtains Let the morning cross the floor I can miss you and still make it There is room for something more I won’t call the leaving wasted I won’t ask the past for more I can love what we were given And let you go [Outro] The blue cup by the sink I set it in the drawer