Room with Cold Windows

Intro

Snow on the sill, breath on the glass, oh-oh

A coat on the chair that still remembers your shape, hmm

Verse

I walk the sidewalk where footprints forget to keep company

Streetlamp spills a yellow bruise on the white, a quiet company (company)

My gloves are thin, my scarf is old, it holds a tired name

Mailbox clings to yesterday, your handwriting in the rain

The corner store plays a slow tune, the radio goes low

I buy a paper I won't read, fold it twice, tuck it close

Cars move like slow heartbeats down the distant avenue

But every window is a painting and none of them are you

Pre-chorus

I trace the rim of my mug, steam draws maps I can't follow

Outside the world is brittle and hollow, hollow

I count the lights that don't belong to me (don't belong)

And wish for one to change, to change, to change

Chorus

I'm a room with cold windows, looking out, looking out, oh-oh

I'm a room with cold windows, waiting for your shadow, whoa

I'm a room with cold windows, breath fogs the glass (watch me) now

I'm a room with cold windows, keep me warm somehow, yeah, keep me warm somehow

Verse

Snow collects on the bench where we used to laugh off the frost

Your name in a mitten, half a poem, half a cost

I pass the park where the swings keep swinging on their own

I press a coin into a fountain, for the wish I've never known

Neighbors hang lights like promises they plan to keep

I put mine away in the drawer where secrets sleep

The city hums a lullaby, I hum along out of tune

I learn the shape of silence under this pale moon

Chorus

I'm a room with cold windows, looking out, looking out, oh-oh

I'm a room with cold windows, waiting for your shadow, whoa

I'm a room with cold windows, breath fogs the glass (watch me) now

I'm a room with cold windows, keep me warm somehow, yeah, keep me warm somehow

Bridge

If winter is a teacher, then I'm trying to be a student

Counting every small thing that keeps me from moving

I fold my hands, I fold the map that showed two of us together

I learn to fold the silence into something lighter than weather (lighter, lighter)

Chorus

I'm a room with cold windows, looking out, looking out, oh-oh

I'm a room with cold windows, waiting for your shadow, whoa

I'm a room with cold windows, breath fogs the glass (watch me) now

I'm a room with cold windows, keep me warm somehow, yeah, keep me warm somehow