We've got wind, we've got light, we've got everything
Buttons on our shirts that button to the very top
A cat that's asleep on the mattress
Where we were just laying, resting like rising bread
Footprints that lead to the dirty street
But today the outside world holds not a thing for us
The trees are not offering their advice
It's winter, they're sleeping
The buds all are waking though

It's been one whole year now without you
One year where I couldn't breathe, had not the eyes to see
I felt bruised, I felt bent, I felt broken
Attacked by some phantom force, wind knocked right out of me
So I went and looked for the enemy
I was humbled to meet him - he looked a lot like me
When he spoke he sounded like an ally
Said there's a simpler answer, it comes when you're breathing deep Comes when you're breathing deep

You're far away now in a cabin
Soon you'll be farther still, one whole continent
I was not ready to let you go
But that's the way it is, ready does not exist
If the moon ever tells me its true name
I will be calling you, a secret to share with you
Or I'll bury it deep in a melody
Oh graceful apple tree, sing all your songs to me
I'm sitting here right by the window
The morning is quiet, I like when it's like this
I picture you in California
The sun shines so brightly there, please don't get a sunburn
Vanessa will write you a letter
It will be spring soon, seeds will need sowing
And I always loved your hands
Gentle like paper birds, strong like the rising tide
And when you'd rest them on me
The weight of the day was gone, cool clean oblivion
Cool clean oblivion

All of the things that you taught me
I will be blessed if I learn to take them with me
So many things to start telling you
But I couldn't write this song till I had let you go
All of the ways I've been changing
You were not here to see, what's gotten into me
All of the ways you are changing
But I would know you still, can feel them inside of me
The hardest thing about changing
Is changing and changing and changing, it never ends
The hardest thing about letting go
Is not holding on no more, things not the way they were
Things not the way they were

Or maybe it's the loss of potential
Like, "these things they could've been", but they were not, so...
Accept how it really is
I've been forgetting this
And you're not reminding me
You were my hometown now my hometown is everywhere
You were my hometown now my hometown is everywhere
How can I be lonely when I know that you're still out there
How can I be lonely when I know that you're still out there

We had wind, we had light, we had everything
Fire in the fireplace, dishes in the dirty sink
A cat asleep on the mattress
Where we were just laying, resting like rising bread