Track 10 of the album The Slow Bloom · 2021
Kind Goodbye, Porch Light Off
by Odalys Fern
“We sat up late and told the truth and nobody shouted. I closed the record on the kindest ending I could imagine.”
ambient · tender ambient · choral pop · 4:19
Lyrics
We sat up late and told the truth Nobody shouted, nobody blamed The kettle cooled, the street was blue We both knew what we came to say It was a kind goodbye Kind goodbye We let each other go And that was love, I know A kind goodbye, kind goodbye The porch light off, the door left wide And we are both all right You folded up my winter scarf I kept the mug with the little crack We laughed about the Sunday walks And neither one of us looked back It was a kind goodbye Kind goodbye We let each other go And that was love, I know A kind goodbye, kind goodbye The porch light off, the door left wide And we are both all right Some roads just run beside a while Then softly turn their own way home No wrong, no wrong Just two hearts growing on their own I walked home slow beneath the rain And something in me came undone It did not hurt the way I feared It felt like morning coming on It was a kind goodbye Kind goodbye We let each other go And that was love, I know A kind goodbye, kind goodbye The porch light off, the door left wide And we are both all right Kind goodbye We are both all right