What We Couldn’t Keep

Verse

The cup stays cold beside the sink

Your jacket’s gone, but your side of the bed still thinks

I reach for your name in the dark hallway

And nothing answers back the same way

Chorus

I loved you like a house on a hill in the rain

Bright from the windows, now quiet with pain

You left with the light, but you took the heat too

Now every room is full of what we couldn’t do

What we couldn’t keep

What we couldn’t keep

Verse

I found your note in the coat that I wore all week

Folded small like a promise we couldn’t keep

I thought if I stayed still, the world might stay

But the days kept moving you away

Chorus

I loved you like a house on a hill in the rain

Bright from the windows, now quiet with pain

You left with the light, but you took the heat too

Now every room is full of what we couldn’t do

What we couldn’t keep

What we couldn’t keep

Bridge

I don’t hate the way you said goodbye

I hate how the room still knows your side

And I hate that I’m learning to live with the ache

Like a door left open that I can’t close back

Chorus

I loved you like a house on a hill in the rain

Bright from the windows, now quiet with pain

You left with the light, but you took the heat too

Now every room is full of what we couldn’t do

What we couldn’t keep

What we couldn’t keep