Track Insight / Lyrics
Someone found my message in a seam
A yellow note, as soft as cream
It said, Keep close when cold winds blow
And hold my hand across the snow
That's how the lost note learns to gleam
I was folded deep inside a coat
A stray thread brushed a stranger's throat
I was empty, but I carried sound
Till footsteps gathered close around
Someone reached into my pocket
A secondhand coat on a metal rack
Rain tapped the windows, ticking back
A hurried stranger pulled me down
And wore me out across the town
I hid a note beneath the fold
I watched morning through a bus-stop glass
The city moved in coats of brass
A hand lifted me and turned me round
Then paused to read what I had found
A yellow note beneath my fold
Someone found my message in a seam
A yellow note, as soft as cream
It said, Keep close when cold winds blow
And hold my hand across the snow
That's how the lost note learns to gleam
Your breath arrived in little waves
It stirred a life beneath my thread
For three short stops, the cold sank dead
And left a stranger's warmth instead
Your hand remembered how it gives
By the late train, the mirror fogged
We crossed a bridge beneath the stars
Your fingers tightened as we talked
And laughter broke the locked-up scars
I felt a thread pull loose inside
Someone found my message in a seam
A yellow note, as soft as cream
It said, Keep close when cold winds blow
And hold my hand across the snow
That's how the lost note learns to gleam
Then you hung me by a doorway
The note still warm, the seams still holding
A lamp came on against the gray
And I kept one small note glowing
The lost had found a road
