[Verse 1 – Male] There's a ticket In a drawer From a place I barely remember And a photograph With faded corners Taken sometime In September There's a coffee cup With a little crack I should have thrown away Funny how The smallest things Are sometimes The ones that stay [Pre-Chorus] Maybe we don't keep The object Maybe we keep The time [Chorus] The things we keep The things we carry A little piece Of who we were A folded note A faded picture A voice we almost Think we heard We tell ourselves They're only things But somehow That isn't true Sometimes what We cannot hold Is what we're holding On to [Verse 2] There's a message On my old phone I haven't played In years I know each pause Before it comes Each laugh I still can hear And there's a shirt I never wear Still hanging By the door I couldn't tell you Why it's there I only know It's more [Pre-Chorus] Maybe memory Needs somewhere Small enough To hide [Chorus] The things we keep The things we carry A little piece Of who we were A folded note A faded picture A voice we almost Think we heard We tell ourselves They're only things But somehow That isn't true Sometimes what We cannot hold Is what we're holding On to [Instrumental] [Bridge] One day Someone else Will open All these drawers And wonder why We needed What we needed Them for They won't know The afternoon The weather Or your face They'll only see An ordinary thing Where I still see A place [Final Chorus] The things we keep The things we carry Don't have to Make much sense A little proof That something happened That somebody Was here once And maybe that's What memory is Not living In the past Just giving Certain moments Somewhere quiet They can last [Outro] So I'll leave The ticket there The photograph The cup Not everything We love Needs giving up
