Letters on the Dresser

[Verse 1]

Got a drawer full of drafts

Folded corners

Coffee stains

Every word I never said

Waits for you and stays the same

Sunday dates with my pen

Spelling out what went wrong

Trace your name a hundred times

Then I tear it and move on (mm)

[Chorus]

All these letters on the dresser

Addressed to you

I never send them

Every line

A little lesser

Than the night you said

"It's over" then left again

I write you back in the margins

Of a life you don't remember

Baby

You were my forever

Now you're just ink and September

[Verse 2]

Talk to you on the page

'Bout the records we outplayed

How your sweater's in my trunk

'Cause I can't throw the past away

Tell the truth

Then I pause

Scared of seeing me too clear

So I sign a different name

Like you were never really here (yeah)

[Chorus]

All these letters on the dresser

Addressed to you

I never send them

Every line

A little lesser

Than the night you said

"It's over" then left again

I write you back in the margins

Of a life you don't remember

Baby

You were my forever

Now you're just ink and September

[Bridge]

Maybe someday

I'll stop drafting our goodbye (our goodbye)

Let the paper stay blank

Let the moment just pass by

But till then I'm here

In the soft lamp light

Writing us back

Just to leave you behind (mm, leave you behind)

[Chorus]

All these letters on the dresser

Addressed to you

I never send them

Every line

A little lesser

But it hurts less every second that I don't press "send"

I write you out of my margins

From a love I won't surrender

Baby

We were almost forever

Now you're just ink

And I'm getting better