Pocket History

[Intro]
[Verse]
Ten dollars at the bin
Where the light gets thin
Found a scrap within
Tracing where you've been
Frayed at the left sleeve
Hard for the heart to leave
Reached inside the deep fold
Found a story untold
[Pre-Chorus]
The ink is fading fast
A shadow from the past
Who were you waiting for?
Standing by the kitchen door?
[Chorus]
It's just a pocket history
A paper-thin mystery
A life caught in the weave
Too quiet to ever leave
Yeah, you're gone now
I'm just breathing somehow
[Verse]
Yellowed scrap, torn neat
From a quiet street
List of things to eat
Bitter and the sweet
"Loaf of rye, extra cream"
Like a fragment of a dream
Stained with a coffee ring
Such a heavy, little thing
[Post-Chorus]
You're gone now
Gone now
Breathing somehow
Somehow
[Verse]
"Call the bank, buy the salt"
None of this was your fault
Scrawled in a shaky hand
Across a lonely land
Did you find the remedy?
Or just the memory?
Did the morning feel cold?
Was the truth ever told?
[Chorus]
It's just a pocket history
A paper-thin mystery
A life caught in the weave
Too quiet to ever leave
Yeah, you're gone now
I'm just breathing somehow
[Bridge]
The strings begin to rise
Underneath these heavy skies
I wear your faded blue
Trying to feel like you
Was the coffee always cold?
Was the truth ever told?
I'm a stranger in your coat
Reading what you wrote
[Verse]
I tuck the list away
To save for a rainy day
"Extra cream" in the dark
Leaving a tiny spark
A ghost I'll never know
With nowhere left to go
Just a name I can't say
In a jacket of grey
[Chorus]
It's just a pocket history
A paper-thin mystery
A life caught in the weave
Too quiet to ever leave
Yeah, you're gone now
I'm just breathing somehow
[Outro]