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Gus Mahoney

Porch Light

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

style

  • alt country
  • americana
  • pedal steel
  • brushed drums
  • male baritone
  • weathered and plainspoken
  • warm analog
  • storytelling
  • southern american drawl
  • grieving

the numbers

bpm
162
key
D minor
energy
0.70
dance
0.91
valence
0.41
vocal at
12.7s
length
3:37
language
En

lyrics

(a screen door settles on its hinge)
Third winter now. Still can't say it plain.

Your cup's still sitting by the sink
I can't quite put that thing away
It holds more than a man can drink
It holds the last of yesterday
(set it down, set it down)

They tell me time will mend the seam
(the seam, the seam)
Time ain't touched a single beam

I leave the porch light on
I leave the porch light on
(on, all night, on)
You ain't coming up the drive
I leave the porch light on
I leave the porch light on

Your garden gloves still cup the air
Like they're waiting on your hands
I let the roses go this year
They won't bloom for half a man
(half a man)

I leave the porch light on
I leave the porch light on
(on, all night, on)
You ain't coming up the drive
I leave the porch light on
I leave the porch light on

If heaven's got a gravel road
(a gravel road)
Look for the light. It's home.

I leave the porch light on
I leave the porch light on
(on, all night, on)
You ain't coming up the drive
I leave the porch light on
I leave the porch light on

(mmm... on, all night, on)
(the bulb hums in the dark)