[Intro] Sometimes... the hardest part isn't carrying the weight. It's forgetting how light your hands used to feel before you picked it up. [Verse 1] A quiet kitchen in the fading light The kettle humming on a rusty burner We traded promises into the night When every lesson made a willing learner [Pre-Chorus] The clock is ticking on the yellowed wall I hear the shadow before it starts to fall [Chorus] Hold the ember through the cold Watch the silver turn to gold We are standing in the rain Building shelter from the pain Hold the ember through the cold [Verse 2] I keep your memory in a velvet box Beside the iron keys that fit no locks The street outside is washed in charcoal gray While all our heavy worries drift away [Pre-Chorus] The clock is ticking on the yellowed wall I hear the shadow before it starts to fall [Chorus] Hold the ember through the cold Watch the silver turn to gold We are standing in the rain Building shelter from the pain Hold the ember through the cold [Bridge] It takes a long time to learn how to stay When every open door is calling you away We don't need a miracle to make it through Just a little bit of quiet and a little bit of truth [Outro] Hold the ember... Bittersweet... We endure.
