Tromso

[Intro] [Verse] Snow turns the cobblestones to static Wrapped in wool and a hollow kind of peace The streetlamps flicker in a rhythmic panic Watching the fjord swallow the light by degrees The ferry groans against the wooden dock A sound that echoes through a younger year I wind the spring inside a rusted clock Wishing that the silence didn't sound so clear [Verse] We sat beneath the cathedral’s white peak Tracing the shadows of the mountain’s spine The words we didn't have the nerve to speak Are frozen in the frost and tangled pine There is a weight to how the darkness feels A velvet curtain pulled across the sky The ghost of us is nipping at my heels In every blue-tinted house we wandered by [Chorus] Oh Tromso takes what you meant to leave behind The salt air stings the corners of my mind A flicker in the north, a pale green fire Burning out the ghost of old desire It is so quiet I can hear the past Falling like the snow, too soft to last [Verse] I bought a postcard that I’ll never mail Of the bridge stretching out across the black The wind is rising to a lonely wail Telling me there is no way to head back I stand where the water meets the frozen stone Feeling the distance pull my spirit thin It is a heavy thing to be alone In the very place where we began to begin [Chorus] Oh Tromso takes what you meant to leave behind The salt air stings the corners of my mind A flicker in the north, a pale green fire Burning out the ghost of old desire It is so quiet I can hear the past Falling like the snow, too soft to last [Chorus] Oh Tromso takes what you meant to leave behind The salt air stings the corners of my mind A flicker in the north, a pale green fire Burning out the ghost of old desire It is so quiet I can hear the past Falling like the snow, too soft to last [Outro]