Chasing What the Wind Left Behind

Verse

Dandelion clocks on a August lawn

Your handprint fading where the frost has drawn

Screen door swinging on a rusted hinge

I keep the porch light on past every tinge

Of orange sky that told us summer's through

The garden's empty but I still smell you

Pre-Chorus

So where do the swallows go

When the branches let them fall

Do they carry what we know

Or forget us after all

Chorus

I'm chasing what the wind left behind

Every leaf, every trace, every sign

The field is bare but the sky's still wide

I'm chasing what the wind left behind

Verse

November rain on a gravel road

Boxes packed up in the truck we towed

There's a maple key stuck in your old scarf

I laughed it off but it broke my heart

Now the frost is spelling out your name

On the window glass, it's not the same

Pre-Chorus

So where do the swallows go

When the branches let them fall

Do they carry what we know

Or forget us after all

Chorus

I'm chasing what the wind left behind

Every leaf, every trace, every sign

The field is bare but the sky's still wide

I'm chasing what the wind left behind

Bridge

Maybe letting go's a kind of bloom

Maybe empty fields still make room

For the seeds we scattered walking away

I see green things growing where the gray used to stay

Chorus

I'm chasing what the wind left behind

Every leaf, every trace, every sign

The field is bare but the sky's still wide

I'm chasing what the wind left behind

I'm chasing what the wind left behind