Porchlight Letters

Lyrics

[Verse 1] My bike leaned by the fence Rust on the chain Your name on the driveway Washed out by rain We'd race the corner store Bare feet in July Back when the whole wide world Could fit in our eyes [Verse 2] Mom's screen door slammed shut Like a starting gun Crayons on the table Sun through the glass You said we'd never change We laughed at the sound Now that little kitchen Is a memory now [Pre-Chorus] And I can still see The chalk on the street And all the small things That carried me We didn't know then What they'd become Just ordinary moments That still light me up [Chorus] Echoes of yesterday Echoes of yesterday They still live in me They still live in me Old ghosts in the frame Soft as a prayer Echoes of yesterday I find you there (Echoes of yesterday) [Verse 3] The ballfield gate was bent The grass ran high We'd swear we'd stay the same For the rest of our lives Now your old laugh returns When the wind moves slow In the back of my mind Where the real ones go [Pre-Chorus] And I can still see The chalk on the street And all the small things That carried me We didn't know then What they'd become Just ordinary moments That still light me up [Chorus] Echoes of yesterday Echoes of yesterday They still live in me They still live in me Old ghosts in the frame Soft as a prayer Echoes of yesterday I find you there (Echoes of yesterday) [Bridge] If the road has turned And the seasons bend I still keep your side Of the wide-eyed end What we called simple Wasn't simple at all It was the first bright thread In the cloth of it all [Final Chorus] Echoes of yesterday Echoes of yesterday They still live in me They still live in me Old ghosts in the frame Soft as a prayer Echoes of yesterday I find you there Echoes of yesterday Echoes of yesterday We were never gone We just live on (Echoes of yesterday)