Do you remember the cottonwoods?
Branches flung high to the sky
We giggled through our kisses
We caught these trees in their indecencies
Holding their butter-bright skirts overhead
Revealing much more than their knees
But the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
Do you remember the gamble oaks?
Spreading their jewel-toned rainbows
Down the valleys, up the mountains
Like a god's heavy cape
We were tracking something special
On the road to somewhere great
But the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
So we locked our hands and went on walking
But we never made it past the hems
That garment was more than we could bear
It was not a costume we could wear
I still remember the aspen groves
Tossing gold coins to the ground
Were they generous or reckless?
We weren't sure until one whispered,
"These are all love letters the sun wrote me this year
While we had our fun
But I don't need them now, won't you take them home?"
We picked out a single precious note
Not wishing to seem greedy
No, we never like looking needy
But we should have gathered all that we could hold
Oh god, we should have bundled sacks off to the bank
Because we couldn't pay our debts that came due
(Do you remember?)
You owed me, and I owed you
(Do you remember?)
You owed you, I owed me too
(Do you remember?)
The bills piled higher, there was nothing we could do
What we had saved would not see us through
Cuz the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
The Candlelights - Loose Leaf Lyrics
The Candlelights - Loose Leaf Lyrics
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Do you remember the cottonwoods?
Branches flung high to the sky
We giggled through our kisses
We caught these trees in their indecencies
Holding their butter-bright skirts overhead
Revealing much more than their knees
But the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
Do you remember the gamble oaks?
Spreading their jewel-toned rainbows
Down the valleys, up the mountains
Like a god's heavy cape
We were tracking something special
On the road to somewhere great
But the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
So we locked our hands and went on walking
But we never made it past the hems
That garment was more than we could bear
It was not a costume we could wear
I still remember the aspen groves
Tossing gold coins to the ground
Were they generous or reckless?
We weren't sure until one whispered,
"These are all love letters the sun wrote me this year
While we had our fun
But I don't need them now, won't you take them home?"
We picked out a single precious note
Not wishing to seem greedy
No, we never like looking needy
But we should have gathered all that we could hold
Oh god, we should have bundled sacks off to the bank
Because we couldn't pay our debts that came due
(Do you remember?)
You owed me, and I owed you
(Do you remember?)
You owed you, I owed me too
(Do you remember?)
The bills piled higher, there was nothing we could do
What we had saved would not see us through
Cuz the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
Branches flung high to the sky
We giggled through our kisses
We caught these trees in their indecencies
Holding their butter-bright skirts overhead
Revealing much more than their knees
But the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
Do you remember the gamble oaks?
Spreading their jewel-toned rainbows
Down the valleys, up the mountains
Like a god's heavy cape
We were tracking something special
On the road to somewhere great
But the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
So we locked our hands and went on walking
But we never made it past the hems
That garment was more than we could bear
It was not a costume we could wear
I still remember the aspen groves
Tossing gold coins to the ground
Were they generous or reckless?
We weren't sure until one whispered,
"These are all love letters the sun wrote me this year
While we had our fun
But I don't need them now, won't you take them home?"
We picked out a single precious note
Not wishing to seem greedy
No, we never like looking needy
But we should have gathered all that we could hold
Oh god, we should have bundled sacks off to the bank
Because we couldn't pay our debts that came due
(Do you remember?)
You owed me, and I owed you
(Do you remember?)
You owed you, I owed me too
(Do you remember?)
The bills piled higher, there was nothing we could do
What we had saved would not see us through
Cuz the leaves, they change
Those paper slivers fade like wedding invites
Unsent with vows that went unspoken
Or shriveled pages in an old book
No one read for a hundred years
It was overlooked on the shelf
Til all the pages blew away
As all the leaves change
Writer: Jennifer Mason
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Copyright: Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid