[Intro] Dust on the fern Tea would be a lie here I say your name to the dark The dark does not respond [Verse 1] I kept your name under a stone by the creek You do not live on this side of the moss anymore The oaks sing to an empty circle I turn The circle stays empty A wind cuts the winter ridge Carrying strangers who never learned Emberdale I count the rings I count the years Each one dissolves on the leaf [Pre-Chorus] If I could borrow one evening back I’d leave no words between the roots [Chorus] Come close Even if only in a dream Stay where the broken pieces meet I held your face against the rain And watched the color run Come close Let the silence say your name Some loves survive by staying changed [Verse 2] The old lamp-lichen leans the way you left it You mended a branch once Then you disappeared inside the storm A pale ribbon on a thorn Faded as a vow written in frost I hear your step on the needle-floor A careful rhythm Then nothing at all Dawn arrives with a silver mouth And leaves your absence in the moss [Pre-Chorus] If I could cross that frozen night I’d hold you underneath the light [Chorus] Come close Even if only in a dream Stay where the broken pieces meet I held your face against the rain And watched the color run Come close Let the silence say your name Some loves survive by staying changed [Violin Solo] [Bridge] No road returns the way it came No prayer can make the season wait But somewhere under all this snow I feel the warmth we used to know I am a fairy of Emberdale I do not get to keep a mortal hour I get to keep the unlocked dark And the name the quiet still spends [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] Come close Even if only in a dream Stay where the broken pieces meet I held your face against the rain And watched the color run Come close Let the silence say your name Some loves survive by staying changed Let the silence say your name [Outro] The wood cools The curtain of leaves sways I leave the path unlatched today
