Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Three years of scanning her handwriting
A yellowing stack by the window sill
I numbered each page with a date and a place
I thought I was keeping her still
[Pre-Chorus]
Then a letter unsigned
A name I never heard
I read it twice
I told no one
[Chorus]
I put it back
I put it back
Between the folds of what she kept
I didn't ask
I didn't ask
I just let the paper rest
[Drop]
(Let it rest)
(Let it rest)
[Verse 2]
Two weeks passed and she called me at seven
Said come to the house bring the drive
She held that page flat on the table
Said child you found him alive
[Pre-Chorus]
She laughed once
Then she didn't
She said his name
Like a lamp switching on
[Chorus]
She said I chose
She said I chose
Not the wound I chose the road
And it was mine
And it was mine
The one I watered and it grew
[Drop]
(It was mine)
(It was mine)
[Bridge]
I had him labeled as a loss
A gap a ghost a thing to keep
But she had him as a question
She answered every single week
[Chorus]
So I closed the folder
Closed the drive
I said tell me how it felt
Not where you lived
Not when you left
But how you chose
And how you stayed
[Drop]
(How you stayed)
(How you stayed)