Midnight Mixtape on a Burning CD

I made you a mixtape on a raining Thursday night

Folded up the sadness and I tucked it out of sight

Track one was the streetlights

Track two was your laugh

Track three was the photo of us on the café grass

Now the tape deck's spinning like a slow returning tide

Every little memory keeps you here beside me tonight

If one song could bring the past back

I'd play it till the dawn

Wrap your name around the silence

Keep the fading moments warm

I'm making mixtapes for the someone I still miss

Hoping that a worn out chorus might feel a little like this

If one song could bring the pass back

I let it heal the night

And ebb inside the echo

'Til I get you back in line

I replay the old corner

Where we used to share our dreams

Your shadow on the dashboard

Your voice between the beams

The little things are louder now than any words we said

Like the click of your keychain and the blue glow by your bed

I keep a side B of the moments I don't want to lose

Every scratch and every crack still taunts me back to you

If one song could be my past back

I'd play it till the dawn

Wrap your name around the silence

Keep the fading moments warm

I'm making mixtapes for the someone I still miss

Hoping every worn out chorus might feel a little like this

If one song could be my pass back

I'd rather heal the night

I live inside the echo

'Til I get you back in line

Maybe time can take me there

But I still press rewind

In the crackle of the heartbreak

I can almost find

The version of us laughing

Like the future never slipped

So I'll keep on making mixtapes

My fingertips

If one song could bring the past back

I'd play it till the dawn

Turn the static into starlight

Sing the missing pieces on

I′m making mixtapes

For the someone that's commiss

Breathing in a tender afterglow

As moments like this

If one song could bring the pass back

I hold it in the air

'Til the room remembers who we were

And I could find you there

So I'll leave it on the nightstand

Let the memory spin slow

A mixtape for the missing

And the love I can't let go