Even If You Leave

Beautiful like 1996
Felt as if you belonged to something bigger
When we met at your tail end graveyard shift
Coffee pots and the caffeinated shivers
There's a promise I'm convinced that I could make you
Like I'll never have a doubt I won't deliver
But for a moment you recede into the dark blue
Like sunset casts fire upon the river
Does waiting tables in a rafting town
while your dreams are fading make you feel impounded?
I am sure you're something that resides in me
like an unturned stone in a shining creek
You're a memory of me waking up
To a country song in a two door truck
I am sure there's something that resides in me
that you could hold on to even if you leave
Your silhouette aligned with the curve of the crescent
As I bargained with my heart to make this feel right
I was thinking of love's natural progression
Reason's never held you softly in the moonlight
Maybe we could move a few states over
I stutter out with the thoughtlessness of a young man
But while you're occupied with smoking on the back porch
I release my fears into the open
Does waiting tables in a rafting town
while your dreams are fading make you feel impounded?
I am sure you're something that resides in me
like an unturned stone in a shining creek
You're a memory of me waking up
To a country song in a two door truck
I am sure there's something that resides in me
that you could hold on to even if you leave