Porch Light

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Porch Light by Noah Kahan

About Porch Light

Written from his mother's point of view, Porch Light explores the way Noah Kahan feels about becoming famous and the people back home watching him become such. The song captures the guilt and anxiety felt over it all, feeling as if he's a ghost to those he left behind. Porch Light is a display of emotion, love, and heartbreaking success. .

Porch Light Lyrics

[00:07.37] Oooh
[00:18.36] I would ask how you've been, it's all over the internet
[00:21.87] But hey I mean you knew that after all
[00:25.66] If you're looking for an autopsy or a half-half apology
[00:29.72] Then I think you picked the wrong time to make this call
[00:34.11] It is not irrelevant that you stopped taking your medicine
[00:37.75] And I'm giving you the benefit 'cause it's raining out
[00:41.74] I'll tell you how the weather is
[00:43.98] And you'll slip into some eloquently ramblin' mixed messaging
[00:48.25] I should shut you down
[00:49.99] But it's cold, and it's cold, and it's cold, and it's cold, and it's cold
[00:57.52] And I don't know, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone
[01:06.08] I hope you tell me that you're winding down
[01:08.13] That you've lost the taste to face the crowd
[01:10.08] That whatever made you famous made you sick
[01:14.05] That you can only do what pain allows
[01:16.03] It ain't up to you to make it out
[01:17.97] And there ain't no shame in callin' this thing quits
[01:22.27] But you don't, and you don't, what you don't, and you don't, and you don't
[01:29.85] You're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost and you're
[01:36.16] Poison spreading to my lungs
[01:42.66] I ain't holding breath, ain't holdin' any faith at all
[01:50.55] And I'll pray for you, be in pain for you
[01:54.76] I'll leave the porch light on
[01:58.82] Heartbroken, each morning when it's me that turns it off
[02:08.59] So it goes, so it goes, so it goes
[02:19.33] You act like we just sit up here and wait for you to reappear
[02:22.65] But baby there are bills to pay and your dad's road needs salt
[02:26.64] And I try to drown out all the talk, the eyeballs in the parking lot
[02:30.78] Tell people it ain't me you want, but I guess you're my fault
[02:34.83] You're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost, you're a ghost
[02:42.42] And I choke, and I choke, and I choke, and I choke on the
[02:47.34] Poison spreading to my lungs
[02:55.10] I ain't holding breath,ain't holdin' any faith at all
[03:03.38] And I'll pray for you, be in pain for you
[03:07.67] I'll leave the porch light on
[03:11.42] Heartbroken, each morning when it's me that turns it off
[03:21.13] So it goes, so it goes, so it goes
[03:24.20]
[03:40.52] Poison spreading to my lungs
[03:47.71] I ain't holding breath, ain't holdin' any faith at all
[03:55.69] And I'll pray for you, be in pain for you
[03:59.91] I'll leave the porch light on
[04:04.33] Heartbroken, each morning when it's me that turns it off
[04:13.57] So it goes, so it goes, so it goes
[04:17.55]

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From the album: The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs