Heart On The Curb

LEFT MY HEART ON THE CURB

Left my heart on the curb, right by the black bags
You said take what’s yours, I said girl, you can have that

Left my heart on the curb, right by the black bags
You said take what’s yours, I said girl, you can have that
I don’t want it back if it still know your name
I don’t want a house that forgot my flame
Left my heart on the curb, under low beams
Somebody better love it better than you did for me
If the city pick it up, let it ride downtown
I was dying in your doorway, I’m alive outside now

Outside now
I’m alive outside now
You put me out
I turned the whole block loud
Outside now
I’m alive outside now
Left my heart on the curb
But the beat still found me somehow

You packed my hoodie with the anger folded in it
Left the key under the mat like I still had a minute
Porch light flicker like it knew I shouldn’t knock
Phone in my hand, but my pride got it locked
You kept the charger for a phone you never call
Kept the pictures, kept the frame, kept the writing on the wall
I kept walking with my shadow doing cleanup
Funny how the worst night made me look up

I was standing where the trash go
Looking like a last chance
You was watching from the window
I was learning how to dance
I heard tires on the wet road
Heard my name in the rain
Then the kick hit my chest
Like it came to take my pain

Left my heart on the curb, right by the black bags
You said take what’s yours, I said girl, you can have that
I don’t want it back if it still know your name
I don’t want a house that forgot my flame
Left my heart on the curb, under low beams
Somebody better love it better than you did for me
If the city pick it up, let it ride downtown
I was dying in your doorway, I’m alive outside now

Now I’m two blocks over with the bass in my ribs
New girl looking like she know what healing is
She said, “You always leave your heart out in the open?”
I said, “Only when the lock inside the home broken”
She laughed like trouble, moved like summer
Put my name in a melody, made the street hum under
You had gold in your hands and treated it common
Now the curb got flowers and the whole night watching

I was standing where the trash go
Now the street got a spotlight
You was done with the last show
I was born in the stoplight
I heard tires on the wet road
Heard my name in the rain
Then the kick hit my chest
Like it came to take my pain

Left my heart on the curb, right by the black bags
You said take what’s yours, I said girl, you can have that
I don’t want it back if it still know your name
I don’t want a house that forgot my flame
Left my heart on the curb, under low beams
Somebody better love it better than you did for me
If the city pick it up, let it ride downtown
I was dying in your doorway, I’m alive outside now

Don’t come outside when the bass hit your window
Don’t say my name if you threw out the echo
Don’t look surprised when the pain turn pretty
Don’t call it love when you left it for the city
I gave you all of me, you gave me sidewalk
I gave you songs, you gave me small talk
I gave you forever, you gave me trash day
Now everybody singing what you threw away

Left my heart on the curb, right by the black bags
You said take what’s yours, I said girl, you can have that
I don’t want it back if it still know your name
I don’t want a house that forgot my flame
Left my heart on the curb, under low beams
Somebody better love it better than you did for me
If the city pick it up, let it ride downtown
I was dying in your doorway, I’m alive outside now

Outside now
I’m alive outside now
You put me out
I turned the whole block loud
Left my heart on the curb
But it don’t hurt like before
You locked me out the house
I found the world at the door