Lyrics
[Verse 1 — Male] Country on the dial. Always, takes me back. Ride that county line. Never meant to think of you — but my heart doubled back. Kept going for a while. Losing track of time, Just like we used to do… [Verse 2 — Female] Pulled out my winter jacket, felt your photograph. Wasn't even looking — first thing I did was laugh. Told my heart don't go there, held on for an hour. That last October lingers, like an old dry flower… [Chorus 1 — Male/Female call and response, NOT unison] [Male] I threw out the ending. [Female] I still read it twice. Life had other plans for me. [Male] But I'd still pay that price. Lying in the quiet of the night — [Female] I want back the way we felt alive. [Male] Give me back the way you held my heart. [Both] Give me back the good part. [Verse 3 — Male] Good home, good roof. Rain that don't get in. Coffee feels like proof. Quiet as a hymn. But it was you who taught me how to let the magic in, Let my feelings show. Guess I should have told you so. [Verse 4 — Female] Good home, safe room. Painted like a dream. Garden coming into bloom. Everything I need. But you were a kind of love That taught me to be free, To let myself be seen And trust what love could mean. [Chorus 2 — Male/Female call and response, fuller, still NOT unison] [Male] I threw out the ending. [Female] I still read it twice. Life had other plans for me. [Male] But I'd still pay that price. Lying in the quiet of the night — [Female] I want back the way we felt alive. [Male] Give me back the way you held my heart. [Both] Give me back the good part. [Bridge — Male/Female alternating] [Male] Kept the road. [Female] Kept the coat. [Male] Burned the fight. [Female] Burned the note. Heart, you don't have to set it down. [Male] You don't have to grieve. [Female] I still want the best of us. [Both] It's just ours to keep. [Final Chorus — full harmony, FIRST true unison] We threw out the ending. We won't read it twice. Life had other plans for us. We still pay that price. Lying in the quiet of the night — We knew what it was to be alive. Thank God you got to hold my heart. We'll always have the good part. [Solo — Female] There's a good one next to me who'll never quite know how Your strength became like home for me, Helped me let the old hurt go And love like I do now. [Solo — Male] There's a good one next to me who's never gonna know The perfect way you showed Me how to stand strong and stay Soft enough to hold. [Outro] [Both] The way you changed it all. The quiet tiers, they fall. [Male] Lying in the dark. [Female] Bargain with my heart. [Both — layered, powerful] We get to keep the good part. [Instrumental Outro] Big rock-tinged flourish. Melancholy undertones, lifted instrumental end, ringing chord.