[Verse 1]
Phoebe laughs in her red scarf
Ethan’s late with the paper cups
Steam between their crooked smiles
Breath painting ghosts above the bus
[Pre-Chorus]
Hands almost touch
Then both pull back
Is this just winter
Or something we lack?
[Chorus]
Phoebe
Ethan
Hearts in December
Holding our coffee like something to save
We keep pretending we don’t remember
The way we almost slipped
Right off the safe side
Babe
Phoebe
Ethan
Frozen together
Two shaky stories in the same cold air
If this is nothing
Why do we tremble?
Why do we feel like
Snow in our hair?
[Verse 2]
Half-price lights in the drugstore window
You joke you’d marry for a parking space (hey)
I say I’d settle for a slower heartbeat
When you brush that curl back from your face
[Pre-Chorus]
We list our reasons
To stay just friends
But every sentence
Breaks at the end
[Chorus]
Phoebe
Ethan
Hearts in December
Holding our coffee like something to save
We keep pretending we don’t remember
The way we almost slipped
Right off the safe side
Babe
Phoebe
Ethan
Frozen together
Two shaky stories in the same cold air
If this is nothing
Why do we tremble?
Why do we feel like
Snow in our hair?
[Bridge]
Maybe in June we’d laugh this off
Call it a crush we outgrew
But under these cheap bright paper stars
I’m tired of hiding the truth (oh)
[Chorus]
Phoebe
Ethan
Hearts in December
Say what we’re feeling or watch it decay
If we remember this every winter
Why are we scared to let
One little word escape?
Phoebe
Ethan
Falling together
Whatever happens
I want it fair
If this is something
Let’s say it clearly
Kiss me and call it
More than a dare
Kiss me and call it
Snow in our hair