The Roof Came Down

Honey…
the roof came down,
and so did the pretending.

The sky looks good on us
The sky looks good on us

Your hat on the chair like you’re almost here
Coffee going cold, another quiet year
For the best of our years we kept ourselves small
Folded in the corners, afraid of it all
Now the walls are half down and the ceiling is sky
And baby, we’re done being shy

We spent half our lives just fitting in
Now the open sky knows where we’ve been

The roof came down, but we didn’t
The years rolled through, but we stayed
We lost the ceiling, not the feeling
We lost the fear, not the flame
Look at us now in the open light
Still got love in our hands tonight
After all the dust, after all we’ve done
The sky looks good on us

We stopped shrinking
We started breathing
Stand tall, stand wide
Come on and wear the sky

Your hand finds mine, we don’t need a word
That slow old record, sweetest song I’ve heard
We buried good friends, we carried the years
We paid what love costs in laughter and tears
Blue on my shoulders, silver in your hair
Dancing in good shoes on a broken stair

The roof came down, but we didn’t
The years rolled through, but we stayed
We lost the ceiling, not the feeling
We lost the fear, not the flame
Look at us now in the open light
Still got love in our hands tonight
After all the dust, after all we’ve done
The sky looks good on us

There’s an empty chair some evenings, and we let it stay
Some of our best dances are with the ones who went away
Every wrinkle is a place that love once touched
And we’re not done, we’re just becoming, that’s enough

We lost the ceiling, not the feeling
We lost the fear, not the flame
After all the dust, after all we’ve done
The sky looks good on us

Honey… look at us now.
The roof came down,
but we didn’t.
And the sky looks good on us.