[Verse 1] I found your blue scarf in the hall Still carrying the shape of your neck The radiator clicked through the quiet Like it knew what I couldn't confess [Pre-Chorus] I had a suitcase by the doorway And a sentence folded in my sleeve You asked me where I thought I was going I answered before I knew to leave [Chorus] My tracks kept walking before I learned to listen Across the yard, past the fence, into the white Snow held my footprints long after I was gone As if the ground remembered every night Now I know the road was never asking for a winner It was asking me to turn and tell the truth My tracks kept walking before I learned to listen But I came back carrying the quiet back to you [Verse 2] The old gate leaned toward the garden One hinge singing under the cold I saw your handprints on the mailbox Small proof of the life I let go [Pre-Chorus] I used to call my fear a reason I used to call your patience a chain But distance only made the words grow sharper And mercy gave them somewhere to land again [Chorus] My tracks kept walking before I learned to listen Across the yard, past the fence, into the white Snow held my footprints long after I was gone As if the ground remembered every night Now I know the road was never asking for a winner It was asking me to turn and tell the truth My tracks kept walking before I learned to listen But I came back carrying the quiet back to you [Bridge] I won't ask the winter to erase me I won't make a promise just to stay If you open up the door, I'll enter slowly And let the silence finish what I couldn't say [Final Chorus] My tracks kept walking before I learned to listen But yours were waiting where the porch light fell Snow held every footprint like a letter And I finally read the part I knew too well I was wrong to leave the heart that kept me honest I was scared, but I don't have to be today My tracks kept walking before I learned to listen Now I'm here, and I am choosing what to say [Outro] The snow can keep the shape behind me The morning doesn't need to know I took your blue scarf from the hallway And we walked home slowly through the snow
