Colors We Left Behind

Verse

October porch light, amber on the screen door

Your flannel sleeve rolled up from raking leaves before

The maple by the fence line turning rust and gold

Sixteen years old in a jacket we outgrow

Pre-Chorus

Do you feel it fading

Or does it stay if we keep saying

Chorus

We're holding on to the colors we left behind

Painted on the sky like they knew it was time

Every falling leaf spells out your name and mine

Holding on to the colors we left behind

Verse

Now it's a different kitchen, different pot of tea

Steam on the window fogging up what used to be

But there's a photograph pinned up beside the stove

Same October evening, same two silhouettes we know

Pre-Chorus

Do you feel it fading

Or does it stay if we keep saying

Chorus

We're holding on to the colors we left behind

Painted on the sky like they knew it was time

Every falling leaf spells out your name and mine

Holding on to the colors we left behind

Bridge

Maybe seasons aren't for keeping

Maybe that's the point of turning

Every year the trees go bare

And every year the gold comes back somewhere

Chorus

We're holding on to the colors we left behind

Painted on the sky like they knew it was time

Every falling leaf spells out your name and mine

Still holding on to the colors we left behind

Still holding on to the colors we left behind