They told me not to look behind Said the city burns too fast But twenty years live in my mind You can't outrun the weight of your past My husband gripped my hand too tight Said don't you dare glance back tonight I only turned to say goodbye Not doubt, just one last look at why Now I stand here turned to salt A woman's grief, mistaken for a fault If loving what you lose is a crime Then I'll wear this salt for all of time I felt the turn before I chose to move Some things won't wait for your consent I saw our door still standing, there to prove That home was real, no matter how it went Smoke was rising where our table stood The street where I once braided her hair I heard my neighbor call, the way she always would One voice swallowed by the burning air I only turned to say goodbye Not doubt, just one last look at why Now I stand here turned to salt A woman's grief, mistaken for a fault If loving what you lose is a crime Then I'll wear this salt for all of time The tears I cried before I turned to stone Were already salt, if you really knew They call this judgment, cold and carved alone I call it the last kind thing love let me do So let me stand here watching what we lost Better a monument than to forget the cost I only turned to say goodbye Not doubt, just one last look at why Now I stand here turned to salt A woman's grief, mistaken for a fault If loving what you lose is a crime Then I'll wear this salt for all of time I only turned to say goodbye Now salt is all that's left of why The wind still carries my name Salt remembers just the same
