Fading in the frame

Verse

Photographs on the mantlepiece still hold your smile

Coffee ring from breakfast left there a little while

I know I should move them to the box in my head

But something keeps me here where the memories are fed

You said we'd grow up someday and leave this town behind

That we'd chase sunsets, watch our own horizon bend

Now those horizons stretch farther than my eyes can see

And every frame is a reminder of what used to be

Pre-Chorus

Is it selfish that I keep holding on to the past?

Or am I just trying to find a way to make this last?

Was our whole life just one long home movie roll?

Or did we really have something worth keeping whole?

Chorus

So I'll stay right here inside this fading light

Where every photograph is burning gold tonight

Not because I'm stuck on what we used to be

But because you're smiling at me from a life that's not mine yet

I don't know how much longer the film will last

Or if the final scene will ever come at all

But until then, I'll hold this frame up high and watch it glow with your face and your eyes

Verse

We drove down to the lake on your grandfather's old truck

Ate s'mores till the sky turned blue like a broken luck

You taught me how to cast my line into the dark

And every time I caught one, you were there to laugh and mark

We said forever when we were fifteen years too young

Promised that nothing could ever make our love go wrong

Now your smile's all I'm left with from those warm summer nights

A Polaroid stuck in the window frame like a fading light

Pre-Chorus

Is it selfish that I keep holding on to the past?

Or am I just trying to find a way to make this last?

Was our whole life just one long home movie roll?

Or did we really have something worth keeping whole?

Chorus

So I'll stay right here inside this fading light

Where every photograph is burning gold tonight

Not because I'm stuck on what we used to be

But because you're smiling at me from a life that's not mine yet

I don't know how much longer the film will last

Or if the final scene will ever come at all

But until then, I'll hold this frame up high and watch it glow with your face and your eyes

Bridge

Maybe time doesn't erase what we used to be

Maybe every moment is just a piece of history

Not something you grow out of or leave behind

Just something that's always there, even when the film runs dry

Chorus

So I'll stay right here inside this fading light

Where every photograph is burning gold tonight

Not because I'm stuck on what we used to be

But because you're smiling at me from a life that's not mine yet

I don't know how much longer the film will last

Or if the final scene will ever come at all

But until then, I'll hold this frame up high and watch it glow with your face and your eyes

Outro

Hold on to this light

Keep holding on