(Verse 1)
It wasn’t a storm that took the paint off the door
Just thirty-some years of the rain, nothing more
A layer of dust and a layer of pride
Slowly covering up everything we used to hide
The wind didn’t howl, it just whispered the truth
While time took the edges right off of our youth.
(Verse 2)
We’re smoothed out like river stones, rounded and gray
From the weight of the water just washing away
The things that used to matter, the things that used to sting
Don't even leave a mark on a damn thing
We’ve been rubbing together so long and so close
That we’ve lost the parts of us we used to love most.
(Chorus)
It’s a worn thin love, see-through and pale
Like a ghost in the rigging of a tattered old sail
It ain't a break, it’s just a slow-motion slide
Of the dirt and the memory and the river inside
And there ain’t no archaeologist coming to see
What’s buried under the ghost of you and me
Yeah, it’s a worn thin love.
(Verse 3)
I look at your face and I see the map
Of every canyon and every wide gap
That opened up slowly while we weren't looking
Between the laundry, the work, and the cooking
Nothing's exploded, no one’s in tears
We’re just the silt at the bottom of the years.
(Bridge)
You can’t find the start and you can’t find the end
When the mountain’s been leveled by the hand of the wind
We’re standing on top of a story untold
Too tired to dig and too heavy to hold.
(Final Chorus)
Yeah, it’s a worn thin love, see-through and pale
Like a ghost in the rigging of a tattered old sail
It ain't a break, it’s just a slow-motion slide
Of the dirt and the memory and the river inside
And there ain’t no archaeologist coming to see
What’s buried under the ghost of you and me
Yeah, it’s a worn thin love.
(Tag)
Let the dust settle...
Let the river run.
(Song ends with the sound of a single, soft piano note held until it disappears into silence)