Measure Twice

[Verse 1]
The screen door's latch is rusted shut from the Johnson County rain
And I practice the words for your ghost on the porch swing again
I map the lines your boots will walk right up this gravel drive
Rehearsing how I'll keep the world I stitched for us alive

[Chorus]
'Cause I measure twice before I cut a single thing away
And I ain't got the scraps to patch the kinda mess you make

[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday, Jesse found that picture in the cedar chest
Said, "Mama, his eyes look kinda sad," and I just held my breath
The cicadas screamed a sermon from the sycamore all night
And I prayed you'd stay a memory that don't step into the light

[Bridge]
You ain't just some rip here in my dress, a seam I couldn't save
You're the shifting ground beneath the only good thing that I've made

[Outro]
The screen door's latch is rusted shut. I'm leaving it that way.