[verse - age 40] it's January twenty seventeen, i stir the cream into my coffee And when I look back, your coffee is black. I smile at photos you hold out to me. Two smiling boys holding toys, near a Christmas tree Your baby bump makes three. it seems so crazy that we're forty now I see you talking but I'm wondering bout an open window that i might have forgot in the car we talk bout how we should do this again we don't quite mean it, but we know, we could just play pretend It's the last time i see my friend [chorus] When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't [verse - age 14] It's August evening nineteen-ninety one I see you leaning on your boyfriend as you come undone we've lain your father in the ground. We look through photos of your family You lean on over and its colder where you cried on me I swore i'd be whatever you need [chorus] When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't [instrumental break - chorus] [verse - age 22] It's new years eve in nineteen ninety-nine we both work retail in the bay and came to drink all night I melt in the warmth of your laugh we see the river from a place reserved it goes so quiet then your eyes dance with the fireworks I kiss you while I have my nerve [final chorus] When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't When I'm home, I put the leaves in the pages you know When I'm home, I read the words that we said that we don't [end]
