[Verse 1] The kitchen light was yellow And the radio played low You were standing by the window Watching somewhere I don't know I can almost hear you breathing I can almost see the snow But the picture keeps on fading Like it happened long ago [Pre-Chorus] And I don't know why I keep returning To a room that doesn't exist anymore Something in me still believes it's burning Like a light beneath a long-forgotten door [Chorus] The colour of then Is slipping away Like watercolour left out in the rain I close my eyes and reach for you again But the colour of then Won't stay [Verse 2] There's a coat still on the hook there In the hallway of my mind And the smell of something baking That I've never left behind Was it winter, was it summer? Does it matter now at all? We were standing on the threshold Of a spring that turned to fall [Pre-Chorus] And I don't know why I keep returning To a room that doesn't exist anymore Something in me still believes it's burning Like a light beneath a long-forgotten door [Chorus] The colour of then Is slipping away Like watercolour left out in the rain I close my eyes and reach for you again But the colour of then Won't stay [Verse 3] There are voices I keep hearing In the spaces between sleep All the words we left unspoken All the promises we keep And the laughter in the hallway And the creak upon the stair I turn around to find you But there's only empty air [Pre-Chorus] And I don't know why I keep returning To a room that doesn't exist anymore Something in me still believes it's burning Like a light beneath a long-forgotten door [Chorus] The colour of then Is slipping away Like watercolour left out in the rain I close my eyes and reach for you again But the colour of then Won't stay [Bridge 1] Memory is not a photograph It bends, it shifts, it cracks And everything I thought would last Is slowly fading to black And yet I'd trade tomorrow For one minute back [Bridge 2] Maybe this is how it always ends Not with loss but with the slow forgetting Maybe time is kinder than it seems Washing clean the things not worth regretting But I still see the yellow light I still hear the radio And I'm standing at that window Watching somewhere I don't know [Final Chorus] The colour of then Is slipping away Like watercolour left out in the rain I close my eyes and reach for you again The colour of then The colour of then Won't stay [Outro - slowly fading, synth arpeggios dissolving] The colour of then Won't stay The colour of then Won't stay (Fading) The colour... of then...
