Spare Key Under the Mat · 门垫下的备用钥匙

[Verse 1]

Third floor, apartment B, the buzzer's got a new last name

The hallway smells like cleaning product and somebody's cooking

I drove an hour just to stand here like a person with no errand

To see if three years is enough to make a place feel foreign

[Pre-Chorus]

And I still remember the number

Even though the number's not mine

[Chorus]

There's a spare key under the mat and the mat's still there

Frayed at the corner where we always kicked it up

I left it there for you, you left it there for me

Neither of us ever used it, but we never threw it out

There's a spare key under the mat

[Verse 2]

The laundromat below is still open, still that same bad fluorescent

The woman at the corner store has somebody new on register

I bought a coffee I don't want and stood there like a tourist

In the town where I was somebody's emergency contact

[Pre-Chorus]

And I still remember the number

Even though the number's not mine

[Chorus]

There's a spare key under the mat and the mat's still there

Frayed at the corner where we always kicked it up

I left it there for you, you left it there for me

Neither of us ever used it, but we never threw it out

There's a spare key under the mat

[Bridge]

I'm not here to take it back

I'm not here to knock

I just needed to know

That the door was still a door

That we were still the kind of people

Who keep a key for someone

Under the mat

(Under the mat)

[Final Chorus]

There's a spare key under the mat and the mat's still there

Somebody changed the numbers on the door

I left it there for you — and I'm leaving it there

Neither of us ever used it, and that's what it was for

[Outro]

I left it there for you