Library Card Afternoon

A library card tucked in a coat pocket

Found me when the hallway light went gold

Between the seams of winter and a coffee stain

It opened up a place I used to know

I followed the paper down to second chances

Past the rain on windows past the door

And every step

Bliss dust and quiet echoes

Like something missing, knocking from before

A library card tucked in a coat pocket

Returned a lost afternoon to me

Shows like roads and the smell of old pages

Bringing back the person I used to be

A library card tucked in a coat pocket

And suddenly the years fell soft and slow

I held that little map of a vanished moment

'Til the light in my hand

Begin to glow

I saw the bench beside the faded fountain

The borrowed book you left the summer shade

One small cardinal

The will came back to me

As if the past had only been misplaced

A library card

Tucked in a coat pocket

Returned a lost afternoon to me

Shells like roads

And the smell of old pages

Bringing back the person I used to be

A library card

Tucked in a cold pocket

And suddenly the years fell soft and slow

I held that little map of a vanished moment

'Til the light in my hands began to glow

If time is the rule, then memory is the key

And ordinary things can set us free