You Stayed When We Left is an original song inspired by “Driveway,” an episode of Love Letters to Forgotten Things.

It’s about one of those ordinary places that quietly becomes a witness to an entire life.

A driveway doesn’t seem like much. Just concrete. A place for cars, bicycles, chalk drawings, basketball hoops, scraped knees, and whatever junk somebody forgot to bring inside.

But over enough years, it becomes something else.

It becomes the place where children first test the boundaries of home. Where friends gather. Where dates begin and end. Where grandparents wave goodbye from car windows. Where somebody gets their first set of keys, loads up a back seat, and pulls away toward adulthood.

And eventually, it becomes the place where you leave for the last time. ...