Willow Vertigo

Verse

October drops its pennies on the ground

Copper leaves keep spinning, spinning down

You're leaning on the willow, hands in your sleeves

Watching how the branches learn to grieve

I counted every step it took to fall

Nineteen feet from the fence to where you stall

The wind keeps writing letters in the grass

I read your name in every one that passed

Pre-Chorus

Is this the cold or is it you

Making my whole chest come undone

Tell me why the ground feels far away

When I'm the one still standing

Chorus

I've got willow vertigo

Bending toward you, letting go

Branches dizzy, roots still holding tight

I'm falling slow but landing right

Willow vertigo

The sweetest way to lose my footing

Golden dust and shaking knees

This is how it feels to fall for you and breathe

Verse

November now, your scarf is red like wine

You laughed and said the season's on your side

We stacked our coffee cups like little towers

Talked for three, four, five unmeasured hours

The willow's nearly bare against the sky

Still it holds its shape, and so do I

You said you like the way I say your name

Slow, like autumn, never quite the same

Pre-Chorus

Is this the cold or is it you

Making my whole chest come undone

Tell me why the ground feels far away

When I'm the one still standing

Chorus

I've got willow vertigo

Bending toward you, letting go

Branches dizzy, roots still holding tight

I'm falling slow but landing right

Willow vertigo

The sweetest way to lose my footing

Golden dust and shaking knees

This is how it feels to fall for you and breathe

Bridge

Maybe falling isn't losing ground

Maybe it's just leaning toward a sound

I used to brace for winter, brittle, tense

Now I'm just a branch that makes more sense

Bent completely, never breaking through

That's the trick the willow taught me, loving you

Chorus

I've got willow vertigo

Bending toward you, letting go

Branches dizzy, roots still holding tight

I'm falling slow but landing right

Willow vertigo

The sweetest way to lose my footing

Golden dust and shaking knees

This is how it feels to fall for you and breathe