𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝙰𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗

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VERSE 1

The leaves were red and gold

I believed time would always be on my side

A perfect rhyme

The frost came, and so did cold

Heart stopping in an endless line

I wanted sun, but I couldn’t run

PRE-CHORUS 1

Flowers bloomed one by one

But time blew like the howling wind

There one moment, gone the next

CHORUS

And I found what I was searching for

In myself, but I lost the one

Compass that’s guided me through six years

To frozen ground, but I’ll stand up here

Tell you “When the story’s written, printed and bound

When the binding’s broken, torn, and unwound

I’ll read our book again

Until the very end, I’ll read our book again”

VERSE 2

New light paints the world in green

So bright it feels like a camera flash

That never lasts

White heels click across the stage

A year is whatever you decide

So live your life

PRE-CHORUS 2

Flowers bloomed across my dress

But time blew into two whistles

Endings become beginnings

CHORUS

And I found what I was searching for

In myself, but I lost the one

Compass that’s guided me through six years

To frozen ground, but I’ll stand up here

Tell you “When the story’s written, printed and bound

When the binding’s broken, torn, and unwound

I’ll read our book again

Until the very end, I’ll read our book again”

BRIDGE

What if I just wanna be

In a bottom bunk, the night we were almost sisters

What if I just wanna go

Back to everything I’ve known

Like when I was little

But an ocean’s cold eyes pulled me in

So day by day, I’ll learn to swim away from it all

And on a clear night under the stars

I’ll carry an old book in my arms

A list of everything I’ll never lose

CHORUS

And I found what I was searching for

In myself, but I lost the one

Compass that’s guided me through six years

To frozen ground, but I’ll stand up here

Tell you “When the story’s written, printed and bound

When the binding’s broken, torn, and unwound

I’ll read our book again

Until the very end, I’ll read our book again”

OUTRO

The leaves are red and gold again

Go live your life

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