Ordinary Things
by David Melton
Lyrics
Verse 1
Your blue mug’s still beside the sink
The one with the chipped white rim
I reach for it before I think
Then set it down again
The porch step keeps your old footprints
In the dust from yesterday
I tell the house you’re running late
Like you might turn and say
Chorus
I miss you in the ordinary things
The coat you left, the chair you’d claim
The way the morning finds the room
And nothing’s quite the same
I’m trying to get through the day
With all this love I can’t put down
I miss you in the ordinary things
And I’m still learning how
Verse 2
Your sister called to ask about
The garden by the fence
I said the tomatoes came in fine
She said, “He’d have loved them” then
I drove past the county line
Where we used to take the long way home
The fields were turning gold again
I sat there all alone
Chorus
I miss you in the ordinary things
The coat you left, the chair you’d claim
The way the morning finds the room
And nothing’s quite the same
I’m trying to get through the day
With all this love I can’t put down
I miss you in the ordinary things
And I’m still learning how
Bridge
Some nights I wake and reach across
Before I know what I have lost
Then your name sits heavy on my tongue
And I let the quiet hold me close
Final Chorus
I miss you in the ordinary things
The coat you left, the chair you’d claim
The way the morning finds the room
And nothing’s quite the same
I’m trying to get through the day
With all this love I can’t put down
I miss you in the ordinary things
And I’m still learning how
Outro
Your blue mug’s still beside the sink
I leave it there, and let it be