[Verse 1] You said you were headed west for a piece of land and something you could name. I said I had someone to find, a name waiting somewhere past the plain. We never asked where the road was taking us. Only when the light went down, you kept your horse a little closer to mine. [Pre-Chorus] I thought we’d share the road only for a while. I didn’t know some temporary things outlive everything. [Chorus] Inside the photograph you’re still standing next to me. The wind hasn’t moved you. Your hat still shadows your eyes. Outside the frame we’ve already gone our separate ways. I grew older all these years; you stayed exactly that age. We only had the miles between us. Funny how a little road can take the rest of your life to leave. [Verse 2] You said there would be wheat someday, rows running gold beyond the house. I never told you I couldn’t see that far ahead anymore. So I put the seeds into your hand like a future I could never keep, and thought: maybe you could live it for me. [Bridge] I stopped you before the night went further. Not because I wanted you less. Some kinds of love come to a place where the kindest thing is to stop. You never asked me twice. I remembered that for thirteen years. [Final Chorus] Inside the photograph we still belong to that day. You haven’t lost me yet. Time hasn’t learned our names. Outside the frame thirteen years have disappeared. Someone asks me who you were. I say, someone I traveled with once. [Outro] You said, “I cherish you.” I lived a long time after that. But never very far from where you said it.
