Snow In Our Hair

Phoebe laughs in her red scarf

Ethan’s late with the paper cups

Steam between their crooked smiles

Breath painting ghosts above the bus

Hands almost touch

Then both pull back

Is this just winter

Or something we lack?

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?

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

We list our reasons

To stay just friends

But every sentence

Breaks at the end

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?

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)

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