**A Little Longer** Stay in the sheets the window’s still pale don’t give the morning your shoes or your name There’s a bird on the sill with a joke in its throat it counts like a clock it wears someone else’s coat Don’t answer it don’t laugh like it’s kind that song is a door and I know what’s behind **Chorus** A little longer a little more breath a little more of you not owed to death Put your hand on my mouth if you have to be brave just don’t get up when the blackbird calls your name I watched you go cold I learned every prayer I got you back wrong and I don’t care Let him wait let the dark keep time you are here you are warm you are mine for a while If the promise pulls if the old wound wakes lie. Tell the morning the debt can wait **Chorus** A Little longer don’t take the stair don’t follow a song that isn’t fair I can stand sharing days I cannot stand the lift of your chin when you hear that bird and start listening Stay. Please. The bed is still dented where you turned toward me. One more hour. One more not-yet. Cover your ears. Kiss me instead. Let it crow itself hoarse on the wrong side of the glass you don’t belong to a calendar you belong to the last person who begged you not to pass.
