Porch Light

Album: The Great Divide (2026)
Charted: 19 20
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  • Mm, mm-mm

    I would ask you how you've been, it's all over the internet
    But, hey, I mean, you knew that after all
    If you're looking for an autopsy or a half-assed half-apology
    Then I think you picked the wrong time to make this call
    It is not irrelevant that you stopped taking your medicine
    But I'm giving you the benefit 'cause it's raining out
    I'll tell you how the weather is
    And you'll slip into some eloquently ramblin' mixed-messaging
    I should shut you down

    But it's cold, and it's cold, and it's cold, and it's cold, and it's cold
    And I don't know, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone

    I hope you tell me that you're winding down
    That you lost the taste to face the crowd
    That whatever made you famous, made you sick
    That you can only do what pain allows
    It ain't up to you to make it out
    And there ain't no shame in callin' this thing quits

    But you don't, and you don't, what you don't, and you don't, and you don't
    You're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, and you're-

    Poison spreading to my lungs
    I ain't holdin' breath, ain't holdin' any faith at all
    And I'll pray for you, be in pain for you
    I'll leave the porch light on
    Heartbroken, each morning when it's me that turns it off

    So it goes, so it goes, so it goes

    You act like we just sit up here and wait for you to reappear
    But, baby, there are bills to pay and your dad's road needs salt
    And I try to drown out all the talk, the eyeballs in the parking lots
    And tell people it ain't me you want, but I guess you're my fault

    You're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost
    And I choke, and I choke, and I choke, and I choke on the-

    Poison you're spreading to my lungs
    I ain't holdin' breath, ain't holdin' any faith at all
    And I'll pray for you, be in pain for you
    I'll leave the porch light on
    Heartbroken, each morning when it's me that turns it off

    So it goes, so it goes, so it goes

    Ooh-oh

    Poison, you're spreading to my lungs
    I ain't holdin' a breath, ain't holdin' any faith at all
    And I'll pray for you, be in pain for you
    I'll leave the porch light on
    Heartbroken, each morning when it's me that turns it off

    So it goes, so it goes, so it goes Writer/s: Aaron Dessner, Noah Kahan
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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