Honey Don't Come Easy

honey don’t come easy

it settles in slow

till the years fall away

and there’s nowhere else to go

if the last song fades

and the lights disappear

i’d still know your love

by the way it feels here

you can taste the years in a kiss like this

little bit of sugar, little bitterness

all that living underneath your lips

all that unsaid business on your fingertips

i know where the heat goes when the lights go low

how your whole face changes when the needle drops slow

how a room full of people can disappear

when you lean in close enough to make me hear

there’s a wild little mercy in the way you love

never quite enough, always more than enough

like a good slow record with a worn-out side

every little imperfection getting sweeter with time

honey don’t come easy

it settles in slow

till the years fall away

and there’s nowhere else to go

if the last song fades

and the lights disappear

i’d still know your love

by the way it feels here

you know that old blue note that hangs past the bar

the one that makes a small room feel twice as large

that’s what you do when you say my name

leave a little smoke where the air was plain

you’ve got that slow-cooked sweetness, that pepper and peel

that look that says you know exactly what i feel

and after all these years, all the ways i’ve grown

you can touch one nerve and make it sing alone

and i don’t mean perfect, i don’t mean easy

i mean your real name written deep inside me

the part of the song that the radio cuts

the note that keeps ringing when the needle comes up

honey don’t come easy

it settles in slow

till the years fall away

and there’s nowhere else to go

if the last song fades

and the lights disappear

i’d still know your love

by the way it feels here

there’s a low-down ache in the things that last

a little slow burn from a long-held past

the kind of wanting that don’t need to shout

the kind that knows what the silence is about

so lay that old record on side b

let the brass come in like a memory

let the bass line lean where the heart beats late

let the whole world wait at the garden gate

i’ve got the taste of your mouth and the sound of your name

and the strange sweet fact after all we’ve been through

i’m still finding new ways to come back to you

honey don’t come easy

it settles in slow

till the years fall away

and there’s nowhere else to go

if the last song fades

and the lights disappear

i’d still know your love

by the way it feels here