Learning How to Fall

Verse 1

Mm

Under the overpass the rain leaves its mark

I count the cracks in pavement like a map home

Somewhere the static settled into calm

And I traced the quiet back to where I started from

Pre-Chorus

Every door I never opened

Every name I never spoke

They come back breathing in the hallway

They come back lighter than smoke

Chorus

Maybe I was never lost at all

Maybe I was only learning how to fall

Soft as the drift of morning light

Maybe I was always on my way

Maybe I was learning what the silence says

Caught between the worry and the wonder

Verse 2

My mother kept her letters in a shoebox drawer

I found them years after the house went cold

She wrote about the garden and the winter birds

And the way she learned to hold what couldn't hold

Pre-Chorus

Every hour I let go of

Every word I meant to keep

They surface in the low light

They surface while I sleep

Chorus

Maybe I was never lost at all

Maybe I was only learning how to fall

Soft as the drift of morning light

Maybe I was always on my way

Maybe I was learning what the silence says

Caught between the worry and the wonder

Bridge

We carry all the things we cannot keep

Tender as the water, patient as the deep

I forgive the current and the cold

I forgive the years for growing old

Chorus

Maybe I was never lost at all

Maybe I was only learning how to fall

Soft as the drift of morning light

Maybe I was always on my way

Maybe I was learning what the silence says

Caught between the worry and the wonder