Verse 1

You left your blue cup by the sink

The one with paint worn off the rim

Your mother folded coats at dawn

While rain kept tapping on the tin

We were fifteen, making plans

On the back steps behind the gym

You said your new town had a river

I said I’d come and visit then

Chorus

You said it would be all right

Like a promise could hold the door

But the bus pulled out before the sun

And I was still there on the floor

We were young enough to call it forever

Too young to know what goodbye meant

You went where your family had to go

I stayed with every word unsent