[Intro – First Frost] Her (warm): The maples gave it all away... golden, crimson, every shade. Now the light comes in sideways... and I feel the first frost on my name. [Verse 1 – Autumn] Her: I was the blaze before the quiet, the harvest and the wine. I taught the trees how to let go — but I never learned for mine. So I'm singing my last warm night through, every hour a colder blue. [Verse 2 – Winter] Him (deep, slow): I don't arrive. I settle. I never knock. I stay. Everything you burned so bright now sleeps beneath my grey. But I am not the ending, love — I'm the pause between two springs. [Chorus – The Overlap] Him: Every year I bury gold... Her: ...and every year it grows back green. Him: Every year you fade away... Her: ...and every year you catch my leaves. Both: And for one night, one strange sky, we share the same air, you and I — snow on the leaves, the leaves on the snow... neither one holding, neither one letting go. [Bridge – The In-Between] (whispered, sparse) Her: Do you resent me... how they love my colors? Him: Do you resent me... how they long for spring? Both: Then why does this night feel like... [Final Chorus] Both (full): Snow on the leaves, the leaves on the snow, a hundred times before, a hundred times to go — and every single year we meet where seasons meet... Him: I'll keep your gold alive under my white, Her: you'll set my silence burning bright. Both: We share the same sky — until the next goodbye. See you on the other side of the year...
