Porch Light Still On · 门廊灯还亮着

[Verse 1]

Mama never learned to turn that yellow bulb off

Says it costs her ninety cents a month, she calls it cheap love

I moved out at nineteen, I'm thirty-one this spring

But the switch beside the front door still gets flipped at evening

[Chorus]

Somebody left the porch light on for a boy who don't live here

Been burning through the winter storms and every lonely year

I ain't asking for forgiveness, I ain't knocking on that door

Just glad to know there's still a light I could come back to, for sure

Porch light still on, mama, you can turn it off but you won't

[Verse 2]

I drove past at midnight with the headlights running low

Saw that square of yellow on the step where I used to throw

My backpack and my troubles, and you'd say get inside

There's a plate here in the oven and a chair here by the fire

[Chorus]

Somebody left the porch light on for a boy who don't live here

Been burning through the winter storms and every lonely year

I ain't asking for forgiveness, I ain't knocking on that door

Just glad to know there's still a light I could come back to, for sure

Porch light still on, mama, you can turn it off but you won't

[Bridge]

And I know I owe you phone calls, and I know I owe you time

And I know that ninety cents could be a hundred by the end of the line

But don't you ever change it, don't you ever learn to save

Somebody's got to leave a light on for the ones who went away

[Final Chorus]

Somebody left the porch light on for a man who don't live here

Been burning through my twenties and my thirtieth year

I ain't asking for forgiveness, I ain't walking up that floor

But I'll take the ninety cents of love you're leaving at the door

Porch light still on, mama, you can turn it off but you won't

[Outro]

You won't, you won't

Ninety cents a month of cheap love

You won't