The Library Under the Bridge

Verse 1

Rain on the railing

I ducked beneath the archway

Counting stones like years

Somewhere water kept its own time

A door that wasn't there

Then shelves going down and down

Lanterns full of dust

Every spine humming low

Pre-Chorus

I pulled one free

It opened like a mouth

Somebody's summer spilled out

Chorus

This is where the lost things go

This is where they wait for me

Every page a stranger's weather

Every page a memory

This is where the lost things go

Down beneath the bridge with me

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh carry me down

Oh-oh carry me down

Verse 2

A woman's first snowfall

A boy on a burning pier

I read them like a trespass

Gently and ashamed

Then a cover with no title

Just my name in faded ink

Hands shaking at the margin

I turned it anyway

Pre-Chorus

The ink began to move

My own voice from years ago

Singing something I forgot

Chorus

This is where the lost things go

This is where they wait for me

Every page a stranger's weather

Every page a memory

This is where the lost things go

Down beneath the bridge with me

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh carry me down

Oh-oh carry me down

Bridge

Instrumental — distant echoes, rising strings

Chorus

This is where the lost things go

This is where they waited for me

Every page my own forgotten weather

Every page my memory

This is where the lost things go

Down beneath the bridge with me

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh carry me down

Oh-oh carry me home