[Verse 1] Somewhere past the bracken Past the rain-soft garden wall There’s a path I’ve never taken But I miss it most of all It bends through little foxgloves Under branches stitched with light To a life I keep remembering Though it has not yet been mine The koi move under silver In a pond beside the trees Like tiny living commas In a sentence out of reach And I stand here in the almost With my hands full of proof Homesick for a distant wood And the shape of me with you [Pre-Chorus] I do not know the doorway I do not know the road But something in the rootwork Keeps calling me home [Chorus] In a distant wood Some small house wears our names In moss along the doorstep In foxglove, fern, and flame In a distant wood The future leaves a clue A koi pond full of starlight And a coat that smells like you In a distant wood I ache for what I knew Before I ever had it Wunderlust in bloom In a distant wood Some life is almost true And I am homesick for the doorway Of a world that dreams of you [Verse 2] Maybe there are floorboards That would learn our steps by heart Maybe there are curtains Holding morning in the dark Maybe there is laughter Caught in rafters overhead Maybe there are books left open On your side of the bed I have never seen the table But I know where I would sit With your sleeve against my shoulder And the candles almost lit It is strange to miss a future Like an old familiar tune To feel a life I have not touched Still reaching through the room [Pre-Chorus] Anemoia in the ivy A key beneath the stone A memory from tomorrow That will not leave me alone [Chorus] In a distant wood Some small house wears our names In moss along the doorstep In foxglove, fern, and flame In a distant wood The future leaves a clue A koi pond full of starlight And a coat that smells like you In a distant wood I ache for what I knew Before I ever had it Wunderlust in bloom In a distant wood Some life is almost true And I am homesick for the doorway Of a world that dreams of you [Bridge] What do you call this longing For a hearth I have not found For your hand in some far kitchen For our shadows on the ground What do you call this missing When the place has never been When the road is still a whisper And the gate is made of dream Maybe love can leave a footprint Before the body knows Maybe some lives wait quietly Until the bramble shows And somewhere, past the almost Past the ache I cannot prove There is a wood learning my heartbeat So it can lead me back to you [Build] I have not lived there But I know the light I have not held it But it holds me at night I have not crossed it But the path feels true Somewhere, somehow It is growing me toward you [Final Chorus] In a distant wood Some small house wears our names In moss along the doorstep In foxglove, fern, and flame In a distant wood The future leaves a clue A koi pond full of starlight And a coat that smells like you In a distant wood I ache for what I knew Before I ever had it Wunderlust in bloom In a distant wood Some life is almost true And I am homesick for the doorway Of a world that dreams of you [Outro] Somewhere past the bracken Past the rain-soft garden wall There’s a path I’ve never taken But I miss it most of all
