Why Did You Leave Me

Verse

You put your suitcase in another doorway — click, click (uh-huh)

Left a coffee ring on the table like a question I couldn't read

Said "I love you" like a headline, folded and handed to the wind (I love you)

You laughed with his name stitched into your collar — yeah, yeah (oh-oh)

I'm on the kitchen floor counting promises like pennies — one, two, gone (gone)

Your voice on the porch was a postcard yesterday — flat and small (mama)

I learned your love was a mirror that only showed what you wanted to see (why, why)

So tell me plain — was I ever meant to stay? (tell me, tell me)

Chorus

Why did you leave me? — why, why, why? (why, why)

You said "I love you" — sounded like paper, like a fall (paper, fall)

Why did you leave me? — lips said love, bags said go (bags said go)

You walked out laughing with somebody else's hand (oh-oh) — left my heart in the hallway (left it)

Why did you leave me? — why, mama, why? (why, mama, why)

Say it again if it's true — "I love you" (I love you) — say it again, say it true (say it true)