[Intro] You start the story Like the room is still gold I sit there nodding With my hands gone cold [Verse 1] You tell it at tables like the month still owes you light You pour the good parts first and you leave the bite for last People lean in when you get to the part about that night And I watch you paint me kinder than I ever was You give the air a temperature I cannot feel from here You give the road a meaning it did not have when we drove You say we knew exactly what we had that year I remember knowing less And wanting more than I could hold [Pre-Chorus] You keep the color You keep the heat You keep a man Who sounds like me [Chorus] You still tell it warm Like the frost never got in Like my name in your mouth Is a fire that did not thin You still tell it warm And they drink every line I am sitting in the present Freezing in your good time [Verse 2] You do the laugh I used to chase around a parking lot You do the coat, you do the cup, you do the closed-gate grin You skip the hour I went quiet and you called it nothing much You skip the way I asked you not to make a myth of it I should be grateful I still live inside your favorite talk I should be proud I get the better cut of who I was Instead I hear a stranger wearing my walk And I want to stop the story Just to ask you what I cost [Pre-Chorus] You keep the color You keep the heat You keep the ending Off the street [Chorus] You still tell it warm Like the frost never got in Like my name in your mouth Is a fire that did not thin You still tell it warm And they drink every line I am sitting in the present Freezing in your good time [Verse 3] There is a version where I reach across and take your wrist Not to start a fight, just to make the room go true There is a version where you let the ugly minute exist And the table learns the month had teeth, and so did you I do not do it I let you finish I let them clap the pretty cold Then I walk out with a story in my chest that is not mine And a mouth full of a season I was never told [Bridge] If you need me golden Say that to my face Do not loan me to a room As a softer, better place I can take the truth I cannot take the glow Of a man you keep alive So the month can still show [Breakdown] Tell it Tell it Just don't make me kind If I was there Let me be there The way I was At the time [Chorus] You still tell it warm Like the frost never got in Like my name in your mouth Is a fire that did not thin You still tell it warm And they drink every line I am sitting in the present Freezing in your good time [Final Chorus] You still tell it warm Leave the burn where it sat If you loved that October Love the man who made it that You still tell it warm I will not correct the room I will take the cold home And I will sleep in the true [Outro] Your voice Their faces My year Gone thin You tell it warm I live it From the outside In
