Air Gets Thin

Your coat's still hanging on the back of the kitchen door

I counted every step from the hallway to the floor

You said the house would hold if we never raised our voices

So we whispered for a decade and we called it our choices

The porch light on a timer, it comes on when no one's home

I've been living like that bulb, burning bright to keep you warm

Now the engine's in my chest and the countdown's in my wrist

I left the keys beside the sink where you'll find them when you miss

Don't wave from the yard

Don't hold up the light

The street gets smaller

Every time I look twice

I'm going up where the air gets thin

Where your name weighs less than the breath I'm in

I can see the whole town from here

I can't find your window anymore

(Can't find your window)

Two coffee cups, one rinsed, one left to stain the counter

You kept a list of what I owed, I never saw the number

The atlas on the shelf has a fold across the ocean

You told me where I'd end up like you'd measured the motion

But the pull you had on me was a hand around the ankle

Not a gravity, a habit, every word you'd ever angle

Now the clouds are underneath me and the blue is turning black

And the quiet out here is louder than you ever answered back

Don't call it running

Don't call it pride

I was the room you lived in

Now I'm the sky

I'm going up where the air gets thin

Where your name weighs less than the breath I'm in

I can see the whole town from here

I can't find your window anymore

I can't find your window anymore

I can't find your window anymore

(Can't find your window)

Let go of the rope

Maybe you'll stand on the porch some night

Look up and swear it's a plane going by

And I'll be the light that doesn't blink

Too far to hear you

Close enough to think

I'm going up where the air gets thin

Where your name weighs less than the breath I'm in

I can see the whole world from here

And I'm not looking for your window anymore

(Not looking anymore)

Your coat's still on the door

I'm not coming back for it