Rain on 5th Street

Coffee’s gone cold

Sleeve stained

Bus late

Crosswalk blinking red again

Breath like little ghosts in the gray

You’re three texts back

All left on read

Taxi sprays my shoes and cuffs

Guess I earned that too

It’s just rain on 5th Street

But it feels like you leaving

Every car that passes

Sounds like you breathing

Yeah it’s one more weekday

But it cuts me so deep

Standing at the corner

Drowning on 5th Street

Billboard smiles wide

My face in the glass

Same old jacket

Frayed at the cuffs

Kept it since that first spring

You’d steal my hat

Spin under lights

Now the only spin I get

Is the world when your name hits my phone

It’s just rain on 5th Street

But it feels like you leaving

Every car that passes

Sounds like you breathing

Yeah it’s one more weekday

But it cuts me so deep

Standing at the corner

Drowning on 5th Street

Maybe you’re uptown

Laughing through the storm

Maybe you forgot

How my hands got warm

Every time you crossed

Right here at my side

Now it’s me

One light

And a too-bright “walk” sign

It’s just rain on 5th Street

But it feels like you leaving

Every car that passes

Sounds like you breathing

Yeah it’s one more weekday

But it cuts me so deep

Standing at the corner

Drowning on 5th Street

Just rain on 5th Street

And you’re gone too deep