Track 4 of the EP Left Open, Left Running · 2026
Take the Long Way, I'll Wait by the Doors
“Flight late by forty minutes, a paper cup of coffee, and you're taking the long way. I'll be waiting by the doors.”
acoustic · airport folk · smooth acoustic · 3:58
Lyrics
Flight is late by forty minutes I have coffee and a paper cup Plastic chairs and a flickering board And nowhere I would rather be She is coming home for Christmas Twelve long months and nine time zones I have cleaned the spare room twice And made the bed with the blue quilt Take the long way, I will wait by the doors Take your time, I have the whole day long Every footstep on the polished floor Might be the one I know Take the long way, I will wait by the doors I have waited all these years Nothing in the world could move me From this spot till you appear A man beside me checks his watch A girl asleep across a bag I think of how she used to run Down the garden to the gate Now she is a woman with a passport And a life I only half-know But the doors will slide, and she will see me And she will still be mine Take the long way, I will wait by the doors Take your time, I have the whole day long Every footstep on the polished floor Might be the one I know Take the long way, I will wait by the doors I have waited all these years Nothing in the world could move me From this spot, my dear I will wait by the doors I will wait by the doors