if i'm not coming back. [chill hip hop jazz]

If I'm Not Coming Back. Verse 1 You folded your blue dress by the bedroom chair Left one silver earring beside the comb The kettle kept breathing into empty air While I learned how a quiet room can know You said, “Don’t make a promise you can’t keep” I said your name, but it fell too far The last train was humming beyond the street And your hand felt small inside my palm Pre-Chorus If love is a door, let it close slow Leave the light where the hallway bends Some things we hold, some things we let go Some goodbyes don’t mean the feeling ends Chorus If I’m not coming back, remember me kindly Not as the man who let the morning win Remember the coffee, the laugh by the window The way you pulled my whole heart in If I’m not coming back, don’t wait by the doorway Don’t count every car that passes through I’ll carry your voice wherever I wander And leave a little of my world with you Verse 2 Your photograph leaned against the radio Sun on your cheek, winter in your eyes I heard the garden sprinkler start below Like a small blue clock refusing goodbye There were two tickets tucked inside a book And a pressed leaf from our first October I read the page, then gave it one last look Some roads grow longer when you turn them over Pre-Chorus If love is a song, let the final note breathe Let it fade without calling it wrong We were a fire in the hands of the evening Warm enough to keep us moving on Chorus If I’m not coming back, remember me kindly Not as the man who let the morning win Remember the coffee, the laugh by the window The way you pulled my whole heart in If I’m not coming back, don’t wait by the doorway Don’t count every car that passes through I’ll carry your voice wherever I wander And leave a little of my world with you Bridge And if the rain finds the place we once slept If the vines climb over the garden gate Know that I loved you with all I had left Even when love could not make me stay Final Chorus If I’m not coming back, remember me kindly Let the years soften the edges we knew Keep the blue dress, keep the light in the hallway Keep the part of me that still belongs to you If I’m not coming back, let the doorway stay open Not for my footsteps, but for something new I’ll carry your voice wherever I wander And leave a little of my world with you Outro If I’m not coming back, my love May your mornings be gentle and true I’ll leave a little of my world with you