[Intro] I left your blue scarf on the chair Your coffee cooled beside the stairs Three roads were waiting in the rain And every one still knew your name [Verse 1] I gave my Sundays to your sorrow My best advice, my borrowed car I held the door for every maybe And called the distance love, not far You came with maps folded like letters Each one addressed to someone new I kept unfolding all the corners Till none of them could lead me through [Pre-Chorus] Now the signposts split beneath my hands One says stay, one says begin I hear your footsteps in the gravel And my own heart asking where I’ve been [Chorus] I loved too freely, gave too many keys Left every window open to the breeze Now I’m standing where the white lines divide With all your roads running through my life If I turn back, I lose the ground I’ve found If I move on, will I let you down? At this fork, with the dusk coming through Which road leads me back to me, not you? [Group Chants] Which way? Which way? Who stays? Who stays? [Verse 2] Your number’s still beneath the magnet Beside the market list and rent I know the sound your silence makes now I know how much of me it spent I carried every half-made promise Like jars of water up the hill Some hands were warm, some hands were leaving I kept on pouring out until [Pre-Chorus] The road behind is full of roses I planted where the ditches run But I can’t keep each bloom from falling Or call the falling what I’ve done [Chorus] I loved too freely, gave too many keys Left every window open to the breeze Now I’m standing where the white lines divide With all your roads running through my life If I turn back, I lose the ground I’ve found If I move on, will I let you down? At this fork, with the dusk coming through Which road leads me back to me, not you? [Instrumental Break] [Saxophone and distorted guitar trade phrases over a lurching electronic groove] [Bridge] Maybe love is not a ledger Maybe leaving isn’t blame Maybe I can keep the good parts Without carrying every name I can wish you safe arrivals I can grieve what didn’t stay I can choose a road at sunrise Without knowing where it lays [Breakdown] One hand open One hand free No more giving All of me [Final Chorus] I loved too freely, gave too many keys Now I’m learning what a boundary means At the place where the white lines divide I can let your roads run past my life If I turn back, I’ll remember why If I move on, I don’t have to lie At this fork, with the dawn coming through I choose the road that carries me through [Group Chants] Choose one road! Keep your name! Love can leave And love remain! [Outro] Your blue scarf rests upon the chair The morning opens everywhere I take one breath, then one more step And keep the heart I haven’t spent
