The Leather Remembers [Intro - Soft Electric Piano, Distant Saxophone] Forty years inside a drawer of time A little piece of yesterday Still waiting for the light [Verse 1] I wanted nothing in my pockets Just a suit that falls in line Then a memory came knocking From another place and time On a shelf, a faded treasure Burgundy beneath the dust Little scars across the leather Still holding on to us [Pre-Chorus] I brushed away the silence And watched the colors rise Some things don’t need to be brand new To shine before our eyes [Chorus] The leather remembers What the years forgot Every road I wandered Every chance I got Under Hong Kong lights Or beneath a quiet sky The leather remembers And so do I [Verse 2] There’s an old screen on my table With a thousand lines to mend One small letter out of place And the story breaks again Sometimes I raise my hands in surrender Sometimes I raise them when I win Funny how the same old gesture Can mean a different thing [Pre-Chorus] A little polish on the leather A little patience with the past Not everything that’s worn and weathered Was ever meant to last [Chorus] The leather remembers What the years forgot Every road I wandered Every chance I got Under Hong Kong lights Or beneath a quiet sky The leather remembers And so do I [Bridge - Intimate Vocal, Saxophone Response] I never planned to find this road I only wanted room to breathe But life has ways of turning corners And showing what we couldn’t see No need to hide the scratches No need to turn back time There’s something in the things we carry That learns another kind of shine [Final Chorus - Warm, Expansive] The leather remembers Every passing year All the distant footsteps Still feel close from here And if tomorrow takes me Somewhere I don’t know I’ll carry all these memories And let the new winds blow [Outro - Soft Saxophone, Gentle Fade] An empty pocket A burgundy glow Somewhere another road begins The leather remembers… And so do I.
