Secrets To The Turning Leaves

[Verse 1]

Boots on the path

Kicking up color and dust

Breath makes a cloud

In the thin afternoon

I say your name

To the branches above me

They only shake loose

One more trembling plume

[Chorus]

I’m whispering secrets to the wind

Let it carry what I can’t keep in

All of the words that I never could send

Rising

Then riding away round the bend

Losing you hurts like the cold in my hands

But something still burns as the daylight thins

So I walk

And I talk

Whispering secrets to the wind

[Verse 2]

A crow on a wire

Laughs at my careful confessions

Mushrooms in circles

Where storms used to roam

Your old red scarf

Snagged on my shoulder

Still fraying

Smells like last year

When this trail felt like home

[Chorus]

I’m whispering secrets to the wind

Let it carry what I can’t keep in

All of the doubts I’ve been burying deep

Shaking like leaves that refuse to sleep

Losing you hurts like the cold in my hands

But something still burns as the daylight thins

So I walk

And I talk

Whispering secrets to the wind

[Bridge]

Every leaf that falls

Is a little letting go

Every branch that’s bare

Still believes in snow

Spring feels far

But it always finds a way back in

So I trade one more sorrow

For one small hope

To give the wind

[Chorus]

I’m whispering secrets to the wind

Let it carry what I can’t keep in

All of the prayers that I’m scared to admit

Caught in the swirl and the spin of it

Losing you hurts like the cold in my hands

But something still burns as the daylight thins

So I walk

And I talk

Yeah

I walk

And I talk (oh, I still sing)

Whispering secrets to the wind