Albedo Effect

[Verse 1]
You trace the rim of an empty glass by the open window frame.
I watch the single grain of rice inside your salt shaker again.
You said, "It's for the humidity, keeps the bad luck out of sight."
And I just nodded, made myself smaller in the sodium-vapor light.

[Chorus]
And oh, the light you're giving me back
Is a color I forgot I had
This is my albedo effect
No apology, no taking it back

[Verse 2]
A MetroCard from 2019, bent beside the key.
A dog-eared Carl Sagan paperback you never read to me.
The faint smell of creosote on your jacket from the rain.
A receipt from Circle K, last October, a coffee-colored stain.

[Chorus]
And oh, the light you're giving me back
Is a color I forgot I had
This is my albedo effect
No apology, no taking it back

[Bridge]
It’s four-eleven in the morning, the dew point's on the glass.
A pressure system stalls above the Franklin mountain pass.
I was a dark surface, baby, soaking up the heat.

[Chorus]
And oh, the light you're giving me back (refraction on the glass...)
Is a color I forgot I had (a different frequency at last...)
This is my albedo effect (a new inversion forming fast...)
No apology, no taking it back

[Outro]
No taking it back.
The light you're giving back.