Nobody Asked Me To Stay So I Quit Leaving Notes

Intro Got my boots half-laced and the door already cracked

Verse 1 Pen still warm on the kitchen note Every word a reason why Folded it under the sugar tin Same as every fond goodbye Pedal steel of the ceiling fan Turning over an empty chair Read it back and I laughed out loud Nobody left to read it there

Pre-Chorus No plea, no hand, no name Asking me to do the same

Chorus Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes Quit explaining the leaving to the lump in my throat Tore the paper to nothing, let the dust take the rest Saved my breath for the road and I left like the rest Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes

Verse 2 Used to draft them like a prayer Sorry penciled in the dark Stood in doorways making speeches To a coat rack in the hall Now I lift the latch and go No paper trail, no last word said Let them wonder at the empty hook And the warm side of the bed

Pre-Chorus No plea, no hand, no name Asking me to do the same

Chorus Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes Quit explaining the leaving to the lump in my throat Tore the paper to nothing, let the dust take the rest Saved my breath for the road and I left like the rest Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes

Bridge Every note I ever left them Yellowed in a drawer unread Turns out love that needs a reason Was a coat rack all along instead Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes Quit explaining the leaving to the lump in my throat Tore the paper to nothing, let the dust take the rest Saved my breath for the road and I left like the rest Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes Nobody asked me to stay, so I quit leaving notes

Outro No note this time, just the click of the latch

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