Dog-Eared Pages

[Intro]
[Verse]
Cardboard boxes on the floor
Dusty light behind the door
Found a spine of faded blue
Smelling just like pine and you
Page is yellow at the edge
Resting on this wooden ledge
[Verse]
Summer camp in ninety-eight
Swinging on the rusty gate
Canteen water tasted sweet
Dusty shoes upon our feet
You were reading by the fire
While the sparks flew ever higher
[Pre-Chorus]
I see your name in pencil lead
And all the things we never said
It’s been twenty years or more
Since you walked out of that door
[Chorus]
It’s the small things left behind
In the corners of my mind
Just a quiet thank you now
For the life you showed me how
To live without the noise
Among these broken toys
Yeah, it’s all okay
At the end of the day
[Post-Chorus]
Dog-eared pages in the dark
Leaving such a gentle mark
[Verse]
Life got loud and years got long
Like a half-forgotten song
I moved south and you stayed there
With the winter in your hair
No one called to say goodbye
Underneath that open sky
[Pre-Chorus]
I see your name in pencil lead
And all the things we never said
It’s been twenty years or more
Since you walked out of that door
[Chorus]
It’s the small things left behind
In the corners of my mind
Just a quiet thank you now
For the life you showed me how
To live without the noise
Among these broken toys
Yeah, it’s all okay
At the end of the day
[Bridge]
I flip the pages slow
Watching all the shadows grow
Your handwriting is small
Ticking like a clock on the wall
I’m healing from the ghost
Of what I miss the most
[Verse]
Kitchen light is dim and low
Nowhere left for me to go
Just a man with an old book
Taking one last honest look
At the boy I used to be
When you were next to me
[Chorus]
It’s the small things left behind
In the corners of my mind
Just a quiet thank you now
For the life you showed me how
To live without the noise
Among these broken toys
Yeah, it’s all okay
At the end of the day
[Outro]