[Verse 1] You left your blue cup by the garden gate Rain in the handle, coffee gone cold I read your note by the compost bin Four crooked lines I still can't fold The hens start up when the kettle sings A loose screen rattles in the kitchen frame I keep your sweater on the wooden chair As if the chair remembers your name [Pre-Chorus] If you come back, come before supper The bread is warm, the latch is loose I’ve got a hundred small things to tell you And no good way to choose [Chorus] Come sit beside me, come sit beside me Don’t make the long road longer tonight Come sit beside me, come sit beside me We can get the small things right [Verse 2] The bus rolled past with its windows lit A paper moon in every pane I saw your face in the second row Then rain rewrote it on the glass again My brother called from the hardware store Said spring had split the old back wall I carried boards through the orchard mud And thought of you with every fall [Pre-Chorus] If you come back, come before supper The bread is warm, the latch is loose I’ve got a hundred small things to tell you And no good way to choose [Chorus] Come sit beside me, come sit beside me Don’t make the long road longer tonight Come sit beside me, come sit beside me We can get the small things right [Bridge] No grand apology, no polished speech Just your boots by the stove Put your hand on the table here And let the quiet show [Chorus] Come sit beside me, come sit beside me Don’t make the long road longer tonight Come sit beside me, come sit beside me We can get the small things right [Outro] The blue cup waits by the garden gate The kettle cools, the porch light stays
