Verse
String lights flicker on the porch we built
Frost is drawing letters on the sill
Last leaf holding on to a bare branch
Same as I'm holding on to this
Paper cups of cocoa going cold
Your old scarf still hanging by the door
Every year this month comes back around
Brings you with it like it never left
Pre-Chorus
So how do I keep December
When December won't stay?
How do I bottle this ember
Before it fades away?
Chorus
I'm holding on to the feeling
Through the noise, through the noise
The porch light, the ceiling
Fans of snow, my frozen voice
Every year it comes back stealing
All my calm, all my poise
But I'm holding on to the feeling
Through the noise
Verse
Neighbor's kids are singing off the key
Church bells ringing three streets down from me
I'm not sad but I'm not steady either
Standing here between the then and now
Half the ornaments are chipped and worn
Half of them were never yours or mine
But we hung them anyway that winter
And I still hang them every time
Pre-Chorus
So how do I keep December
When December won't stay?
How do I bottle this ember
Before it fades away?
Chorus
I'm holding on to the feeling
Through the noise, through the noise
The porch light, the ceiling
Fans of snow, my frozen voice
Every year it comes back stealing
All my calm, all my poise
But I'm holding on to the feeling
Through the noise
Bridge
Maybe I don't need to keep it
Maybe letting go's the point
Every year I get to feel it
Melt again and still rejoice
Nothing gold was made to stay here
That's the ache and that's the joy
So I'll keep on chasing embers
Through the noise
Chorus
I'm holding on to the feeling
Through the noise, through the noise
The porch light, the ceiling
Fans of snow, my frozen voice
Every year it comes back stealing
All my calm, all my poise
But I'm holding on to the feeling
Through the noise
