Does He Know?

Does he know you hum when you’re nervous?

And how you always read the last page first?

And does he know you wipe the rings off of the table,

Every time that he leaves for work?

Does he see the way you bite your lip when you’re trying not to cry?

And yet you’ll never lose your grace?

did he know that he was gonna take my place

 Does he know you love the heat in the kitchen?

When you first stumble up out of bed?

Or the way that your laugh sounds like flowers in the rain?

And that you’ll never leave his head?

Does he know you leave the curtains cracked open just a bit,

So the moonlight can dance across your face?

did you know that he was gonna take my place

I wonder if you tell him about the nights we sat in silence,

and our timing just never seemed quite right?

Does he know the way you love, like its gotta rule your world?

How you’d never let it go without a fight.

Does he see the way you hold your breath at sunrise,

As if the world might just slip away?

Does he understand the way you love like fire, burning slow

and ashes that never turn grey

Does he hear the way you whisper when you’re drifting off to sleep?”

Your love it has already gone away

and you know that he could never take my place.