Gray November

November seventeenth, 2013
Madison's already freezing again
Snow collecting near the bus stop lights
And I'm pretending not to check my phone

Yellow kitchen light at 2AM
Coffee gone cold beside the sink
The heater shakes inside the apartment walls
Like this whole building's trying not to collapse

Gray November
Everything stays unfinished here
Conversations
Voicemails
People leaving slowly

I drove down East Washington tonight
Streetlights stretching across the ice
Every radio station sounds distant
Like somebody speaking through water

And I still wait for your name
To light up the screen again
Even knowing silence
Has become our favorite language

Gray November
You said winter makes you disappear
Maybe that's why I keep losing you
Every single year

There's frost climbing up the windshield
The clock says 3: 16
Somewhere outside the city limits
The world finally goes quiet
But my head never does