[Verse 1] You buttoned the collar all the way Though summer pressed against the glass A cedar branch crossed through your face Like something living through the past [Pre-Chorus] You held your hands beneath your chin As if the words might bruise the air The room grew thin, the woods came in And left their green around your hair [Chorus] If I lose you in the picture Will the trees remember why Your dark eyes kept the morning From becoming someone else's sky Stay a little, almost vanished Stay where paper meets the rain I can hear the forest breathing Through the outline of your name [Verse 2] A silver button caught the light The kind that fades but doesn't break Behind your shoulder, trunks stood white And every path refused a shape [Pre-Chorus] I reached for you, then stopped my hand The frame was colder than it seemed You were a person, you were land You were the edge of waking dreams [Chorus] If I lose you in the picture Will the trees remember why Your dark eyes kept the morning From becoming someone else's sky Stay a little, almost vanished Stay where paper meets the rain I can hear the forest breathing Through the outline of your name [Bridge] No farewell, no final sentence Only leaves across the lens You became the quiet distance I keep returning to again [Final Chorus] If I lose you in the picture Let the green hold what I can't Let the mist undo the border Between the person and the land Stay a little, almost vanished Not a ghost and not a frame I can hear the forest breathing And it answers to your name [Outro] The collar fades, the branches stay The light moves slowly through the gray
