Ashes, Rye & Cedar
Lyrics · The Blue Habano Vol. 3: Smoke in Her Hair · Track 7

If You Stay Past Closing

Ashes, Rye & Cedar · All Smoke in Her Hair lyrics

Verse

They'll turn the chairs up in a little while
Wipe the wood like the night didn't happen
If you stay past closing you don't get a show
You get the woman under the laughing

Verse

I'll pour from the bottle they hide for the staff
Light the last leaf like a little thin moon
We don't have to talk. We can just be two people
Who didn't want the parking lot so soon

Chorus

If you stay past closing, stay quiet
Don't turn it into a plan
Whiskey, a window, a slow red coal
And the kind of dark I understand

Verse

My shoes come off like a honest confession
My voice gets lower, my jokes get few
This is the hour I stop performing
This is the hour I might let you

Bridge

Morning will come with its hard little questions
I don't owe it a name or a ride
If you're still here when the ash goes gray
Then you learned how I like to hide

Chorus

If you stay past closing, stay quiet
Don't turn it into a plan
Whiskey, a window, a slow red coal
And the kind of dark I understand

Outro

They'll turn the chairs up
They'll turn the chairs up

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