Back Porch Hallelujah

[Verse 1]
Screen door slam
flies dance in the porch light glow
You laugh, say my full name
like it’s one only you can know

Mason jars
sweat rings on the weathered wood
Your dad hums an old hymn
says, “stay as long as you could”

[Chorus]
This is my back porch hallelujah
bare feet on peeling paint
Sunday in a Tuesday sunset
where the tired turn into saints
If heaven ever touched this earth
it was right here, me and you, yeah
In our back porch hallelujah

[Verse 2]
Cracked blue swing
chains squeak on the one low note
You trace hearts
in the dust on my faded coat

Fireflies
take their time in the purple sky
You say, “promise you’ll remember
this, even when we say goodbye”

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Years moved on like trucks down gravel
tail-lights gone, but I still see
that chipped white rail, that old dog barking
your choir of “stay” surrounding me

[Chorus]