Never Shoot

Verse 1

Boots crack the frost at five

My father's coat still smells like pine

We track the treeline slow

He says a hunter waits and waits

I hold my breath and count the firs

Pre-Chorus

Something moves beyond the ridge

Something beats inside my ribs

Chorus

I aim I aim I never shoot

The deer just stares and I just stand

I aim I aim my hands won't move

A softer thing inside the man

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it run

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it run

Verse 2

He taught me steady hands

He taught me how to read the snow

But not how to forget

The way her eyes went wide and warm

The way she chose to trust me first

Pre-Chorus

Every winter brings me back

Every trigger pulls me somewhere else

Chorus

I aim I aim I never shoot

The deer just stares and I just stand

I aim I aim my hands won't move

A softer thing inside the man

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it run

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it run

Bridge

Track the trail the frost the fern

Turn the rifle toward the dirt

Bury what my father learned

Bury what my father learned

Chorus

I aimed I aimed I never shot

She turned and vanished through the pines

I aimed I aimed and let it go

Some hunts you lose to keep your kind

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it run

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it run