[Intro] [Verse 1] There's a file somewhere with my name on it, my dates, the towns I lived Every job and every address, everything a form could give But it doesn't hold the kitchen where she laughed until she cried Doesn't hold the way the morning felt the first year we tried [Pre-Chorus] No clerk wrote down the good stuff, no office kept the gold It's all in the unofficial, in the parts that can't be told [Chorus] It's what the file won't hold The look, the laugh, the 3am, the stories never told You can search my whole name to the bottom, get the facts and miss the soul 'Cause the life was in the margins, in the part they never scrolled It's what the file won't hold [Verse 2] They'll get the day I married, they won't get the drive back home The way we didn't say a word and never felt alone They'll log the kid was born on Tuesday, get the weight and get the time They'll never hold him falling asleep still breathing against mine [Pre-Chorus] And none of it is provable, and none of it's on file But it's the only thing that mattered, every unrecorded mile [Chorus] It's what the file won't hold The look, the laugh, the 3am, the stories never told You can search my whole name to the bottom, get the facts and miss the soul 'Cause the life was in the margins, in the part they never scrolled It's what the file won't hold [Bridge] So let 'em have the paperwork, the ledger and the stone The real one's in a hundred rooms that nobody will own It won't survive me, can't be searched, there's no receipt, no proof Just a handful of unwitnessed light, and every bit of it was true [Instrumental solo] [Final Chorus] It's what the file won't hold And maybe that's the mercy, that the best of us don't fold Into anything a stranger reads, anything they're sold The life was always private, and it's warmer than it's cold It's what the file won't hold [Outro]
