Dust on Your Side of the Bed

[Verse 1]
Tires spittin’ gravel
In my rearview
Your porch light fades
Coffee in a paper cup
Cold as everything we never said
Your name on the dashboard dust
I trace it once
Then wipe it clean
One lane
Broken white lines
Cut straight through what used to be
[Chorus]
There’s dust on your side of the bed
Empty pillow
Heavy as lead
All these miles
I drive in my head
Back to the night that you said
“Baby
Love don’t live here
It’s dead”
But I still set a place in my chest
Yeah
There’s dust
There’s dust on your side of the bed (oh, on your side)
[Verse 2]
Old bar off the county road
Your laugh still leans on that back booth
Jukebox sings a song you loved
I kill it quick
Can’t take the truth
Folks ask where you gone to
I just nod and sip my glass
Say you’re chasin’ some bright future
While I’m stuck here in the past
[Chorus]
There’s dust on your side of the bed
Where your Bible and your hair ties rest
I still sleep on the edge
Like I’m scared I might wake you instead
You said
“Boy
You gotta let go
Accept”
But my hands stay gripped on what’s left
Yeah
There’s dust
There’s dust on your side of the bed (mmm, on your side)
[Bridge]
[Band drops low
Organ swells]
I been drivin’ through the questions
Like mile markers in the dark
Was I too proud
Too loud
Too broken
To hold your shaking heart?
If you ever turn that handle
Find your way back through that door
You’ll see your footprints
Baby
Still waiting in my floor (yeah)
[Chorus]
There’s dust on your side of the bed
But the space in my arms stays fresh
I keep talkin’ to the air
Like you’re sittin’ there
Noddin’ your head
You said
“Love ain’t supposed to feel like dread”
So why you the ghost in my chest?
Yeah
There’s dust
There’s dust on your side of the bed
(There’s dust, there’s dust)
On your side of the bed (sing it)

Vintage roots-soul ballad: slow swing tempo, brushed drums, upright bass and twangy electric guitar under warm Rhodes. Male vocals, gritty and tender, leaning into big gospel runs on the chorus with organ swells and a small churchy backing choir. Verses stay sparse and intimate; choruses open wide with call-and-response ad-libs, tambourine, and dramatic dynamic lifts, then a hushed breakdown bridge before a final, roof-raising chorus., vocal, soulful, deep, rich, raw, gospel