The Unsent Thread

[Intro]
[Verse]
Leather bag smells of rain
Found it on a dusty shelf
Paid the price for someone's pain
Or a story told to self
Buckle clicks and leather sighs
Underneath the morning skies
[Verse]
Sepia ink on yellowed card
Postmarked nineteen fifty-four
Life was soft and life was hard
Walking through a different door
Winter wind in Montreal
Greetings from a sunny shore
[Chorus]
Oh, the threads we leave behind
In a hand I'll never know
Quiet joys for us to find
Where the ghosts of memory go
Just a line about the weather
Keeping all our souls together
[Post-Chorus]
Ink and paper, heart and hand
Scattered across a lonely land
[Verse]
"Dear Louise, the apples grew"
"I am coming home to you"
"Wish that you were here to see"
"This is where I want to be"
Did she smile to read his name?
Was the ending just the same?
[Pre-Chorus]
Small lives in a leather case
Every word a trace of grace
Time is just a shifting space
[Chorus]
Oh, the threads we leave behind
In a hand I'll never know
Quiet joys for us to find
Where the ghosts of memory go
Just a line about the weather
Keeping all our souls together
[Bridge]
I'm a stranger to their light
Reading by a dim lamp glow
Holding onto what was bright
Years and years and years ago
We are echoes in the dark
Stamps upon a heavy flow
[Hook]
Signed with love
Sent from above
Signed with love
[Chorus]
Oh, the threads we leave behind
In a hand I'll never know
Quiet joys for us to find
Where the ghosts of memory go
Just a line about the weather
Keeping all our souls together
[Outro]