Dust on my shoes
Keys on the hook by the back door
Coffee gone cold
Screen door slams as I run

Wind in the wheat
All of it bending around me
Heartbeat in waves
Counting the steps till you’re gone

I run toward the sky
Like I could pull you down
Name on my tongue
But it never leaves my mouth
If time is a tide
I’ll fight it till I drown
I run toward the sky
And the sky won’t turn around

Tracks through the field
Lines that we’ve carved out for years now
Your jacket still hangs
On that one rusted nail in the hall

Static and storm
Buzz of a world I can’t follow
Gravity holds
But nothing feels heavy at all

I run toward the sky
Like, like I could pull you down
Name on my tongue
But it never leaves my mouth
If time is a tide
I’ll fight it till I drown
I run toward the sky
And the sky won’t turn around

If you hear me
Answer
If you’re out there
Call
I’ll keep chasing after
Footprints in the fall

I run toward the sky
Like I could pull you down
Promise you made
Still the loudest quiet sound
If time is a tide
I’ll fight it till I drown
I run toward the sky
And the sky won’t turn around

You drew a maze on the back of your hand
Said “If we wake up, will we still understand?”
Coffee gone cold on the midnight train
Names in a notebook
Smudged by the rain

In time
We’ll know what was real
What we borrowed
What we stole
What we feel
If the morning erases this rhyme
Hold my hand
And we’ll fall
We’ll fall back
In time

You left your ring in the hotel glass
Laughing “Reminder, all of this passes”
But your shadow stayed in the lobby light
Pacing the carpet
Tracing the night

In time
We’ll know what was real
What we borrowed
What we broke
What we heal
If the morning erases this rhyme
Hold my hand
And we’ll fall
We’ll fall back
In time

Is this your voice
Or is it the echo? (Hey)
Is this goodbye
Or just another threshold?
If I lose you every time I close my eyes
Will I find you every time I rise?

In time
We’ll know what was real
All the layers that we peeled
How we feel
If the morning erases this rhyme
Hold my hand
If the ground fades from under our feet
We’ll fall back
In time

Dust in the sun
Broken helmets in the field
You laid your sword down
Let your tired fingers heal

Crowds fade to gray
Echoes hanging in the air
You close your eyes once
And find me standing there

Now we are free again
Nothing to carry
Nothing to prove
All of the fear you held
Falls like sand from your open hands
Now we are free again
You finally walk where the sky turns gold
All of the wounds you hid
Open like wings as the past lets go

Names carved in stone
Faces lost to wind and rain
You wore their stories
Stitched in leather
Stitched in pain

But love outlasts every order
Every throne follow the wheat lines
They will lead you home

Now we are free again
Nothing to carry
Nothing to prove
All of the fear you held
Falls like sand from your open hands
Now we are free again
Finally walk where the sky turns gold
All of the wounds you hid
Open like wings as the past lets go

Do you hear them calling? (oh…)
Every voice you thought you’d lost
All the battles falling
Small and silent in the dust

Now we are free again
Heart like a river
Wide and clear
All of the chains you wore
Rust and crumble when you draw near
Now we are free again
Barefoot
Laughing in fields of grain
Here in the quiet light
You are remembered
You are reclaimed