[Verse 1] Down by the usual girl in vermillion Paints the breeze with a lavender laugh Skipping past cafes and vinyl song millions where Time folds like a photograph She hums like summer through cathedral streets Ghosts in the puddles try dancing in time She's sunlight wrapped in a Polaroid heat And I still see her when I close my mind [Chorus] Oh when the day turned to glass And the sky spilled its last Golden thread of the past I saw her face With the grace of the rain On a rare window pane She was here, she was gone without a trace [Verse 2] She spoke in colors no tongue could deliver Her hair was a map of forgotten braids She said there's music in every river But it fades if you try to make it stay Buses were sighing, the station clock stalled We danced on the hour hands barefoot and free I never asked her what the silence was called But it follows like a shadow through me [Chorus] Oh when the day turned to glass [Instrumental] [Chorus] Oh when the day turned to glass And the wind wouldn't pass Through the curtains of grass I saw her eyes Like a hymn out of tune Or a cold neon moon She was here, she was gone like lullabies [Verse 3] Tangerine perfume, tea leaves in her palm Reading my fortune with a crooked comb She said all of your yesterdays hang in the air Like bells in the fog if you listen they're there Now I sit by the window, same record plays She's still in the echo, still turning the phrase A rainbow in gray, a laugh in reverse She's the verse in the silence, the blessing, the curse
