Through the Noise

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