Soft as Kerosene

Verse 1

Window panes and winter grey

The empty chair across the way

I trace the dust on stacked-up years

Like water held then let to drain

Pre-Chorus

And every room still hums your name

Faint as a radio left on

Chorus

Ooh, the glow we kept so nearly alive

Burned soft as kerosene in the dark

We leaned against the fading of the light

And swore we'd never learn to part

Post-Chorus

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Hold the hours, hold the hours

Verse 2

Out past the orchard and the fence

The field goes on where we grew quiet

A trumpet note climbs slow and sharp

And cuts the hush like second summer

Pre-Chorus

But every turn brings back your face

Faint as a station out of range

Chorus

Ooh, the glow we kept so nearly alive

Burned soft as kerosene in the dark

We leaned against the fading of the light

And swore we'd never learn to part

Hook

Under the horn and the choir

We sang it once and once again (again)

Under the horn and the choir

The sound we kept for quieter men

Bridge

Hold back the swell

Let the brass rise on its own

Turn the page and let it fall

A voice, a chord, a single stone

Then the full tide of it all

Final Chorus

Ooh, the glow we kept so nearly alive

Burns out across the closing dark

We leaned into the last of the light

And carried what we could not part