Stay for the Ash

Stay for the ash, not for the ending
The ending's just a door and a street
The ash is the part that proves we were burning
It's the gray little proof we ain't cheap

I'll stay for the ash if you don't turn it holy
Don't make a vow out of a tray
I can watch a coal die next to a man
If the man don't need me to stay

Then we agree. We don't name it morning
We name it the minute the fire gets thin
You keep your chair, I keep my pour
And we let the night come in

I keep my chair. You keep your pour
The band can take the long way home
If the coal goes dark, we still did it right
We sat. We burned. We didn't have to own

No kiss required
No kiss forbidden
Just two stools and a tray of gray
If that's a love
It's a small one
And it fits in a room this way