[Verse 1]

I’m tracing shadows on the walls of this empty room

Counting every second, watching flowers lose their bloom

I keep the porch light burning through the coldest of the nights

Still looking for your silhouette beneath the city lights

People say I’m living in a ghost town of the past

That a fire left untended isn't ever gonna last

But they don’t see the letters that I write but never send

Or the way I keep on starting stories where they ought to end

I’ve memorized the rhythm of your footsteps on the floor

And I’m still listening for the key to turn inside the door.

[Pre-Chorus]

The calendar pages are falling like leaves

And everyone tells me it’s time I believe

That the wind’s carried you far away from the shore

But I’m standing right here, right where I was before.

[Chorus]

Cause my heart still hopes that

One day you will hug me and say,

"Thank you for waiting, thank you for staying,

Thank you for keeping the faith while I was straying."

Yeah, my heart still hopes that

The silence will break and the clouds will turn grey to blue,

And I’ll finally hear those words from you:

"Thank you for waiting."

[Verse 2]

I walk the paths we used to take when the world was ours to hold

Before the summer turned to grey and the air grew thin and cold

I see your face in every crowd, a flicker in the rain

A sudden rush of heartbeat, then the dullness of the pain

It’s a long and lonely road to walk with no one by my side

With a thousand secrets kept away and nowhere left to hide

But there’s a stubborn kind of magic in the way I choose to stay

Like I’m anchored to the memory of a brighter yesterday

And I’d do it all again, through the years and through the doubt

Just to be the one you turn to when the lights are going out.

[Pre-Chorus]

The calendar pages are falling like leaves

And everyone tells me it’s time I believe

That the wind’s carried you far away from the shore

But I’m standing right here, right where I was before.

[Chorus]

Cause my heart still hopes that

One day you will hug me and say,

"Thank you for waiting, thank you for staying,

Thank you for keeping the faith while I was straying."

Yeah, my heart still hopes that

The silence will break and the clouds will turn grey to blue,

And I’ll finally hear those words from you:

"Thank you for waiting."

[Bridge]

They call it a tragedy, they call it a waste

But they don't know the sweetness of the love that I can taste

In the middle of the longing, in the center of the wait

I’m rewriting every ending, I am challenging our fate

I’m not giving up, I’m not letting go

Until you’re back home in the only life I know.

[Guitar Solo / Instrumental Break - Emotional and Swelling]

[Chorus]

Cause my heart still hopes that

One day you will hug me and say,

"Thank you for waiting, thank you for staying,

Thank you for keeping the faith while I was straying."

Yeah, my heart still hopes that

The silence will break and the clouds will turn grey to blue,

And I’ll finally hear those words from you:

"Thank you for waiting."

[Outro]

I’m still here...

Yeah, I’m still waiting.

The light is on.

Just say the words...

"Thank you for waiting."

[Fade out]