Threads of the Same Wool

[Intro]
[Verse]
The quilt is heavy on my lap
A hand-sewn, multicolored map
Stitched in 1994
Behind a heavy wooden door
I felt a bump inside the seam
Like a secret or a dream
[Pre-Chorus]
I pulled the corner back to see
What you left behind for me
A square of film, a faded view
A 1990s version of you
[Chorus]
Oh, the threads we leave behind
In the corners of the mind
I see your eyes inside of mine
Tracing every silver line
A quiet ghost, a gentle light
Keeping me warm through the night
[Post-Chorus]
Softly now
Softly now
I know you now
I show you now
[Verse]
A Polaroid with rounded edges
Tucked beneath the cotton hedges
You’re leaning on a fence of pine
Where the winter frost starts to shine
White crystals on the cedar post
Looking like a morning ghost
[Pre-Chorus]
You're holding up a paper bag
With a yellow plastic tag
The frost is on the fence today
Just like when you went away
[Chorus]
Oh, the threads we leave behind
In the corners of the mind
I see your eyes inside of mine
Tracing every silver line
A quiet ghost, a gentle light
Keeping me warm through the night
[Bridge]
I found the list you wrote in blue
A tiny piece of having you
Bread and tea and chamomile
A quiet life I want to feel
The ink is smudged, the paper thin
Tracing where your days begin
[Verse]
Your sweater had a jagged tear
The same one that I always wear
Intergenerational design
Your quiet longing, now it’s mine
Unspoken words in every stitch
The fabric of the poor and rich
A recognition in the face
A slow and steady, saving grace
[Chorus]
Oh, the threads we leave behind
In the corners of the mind
I see your eyes inside of mine
Tracing every silver line
A quiet ghost, a gentle light
Keeping me warm through the night
[Outro]