Snow Kept Falling

[Verse 1]
We were kids in borrowed coats
Breath like ghosts in the dark
Hands so numb they shook in mine
Still I swore I felt your heart
Streetlamp halos on your hair
Boot prints trailing side by side
I believed that was the start
Of the rest of my life
[Chorus]
Snow kept falling
We kept walking
I thought it meant forever
Your name written in my window
I didn’t want another
You were every first and only
Every plan I ever drew
Now the cold still finds my fingers
When I think of you
[Verse 2]
Years went by
I stayed that age
Every crush a pale outline
Held them up against your shadow
Watched them flicker
Then decline
Till one day somebody new
Laughed the way you used to laugh
I let hope crawl back inside me
Shaking like cracked glass
[Chorus]
Snow kept falling
We kept talking
I thought I’d healed for real
Shared my secrets in a parking lot
Thought that meant I’d finally feel
But the same old quiet opened
That familiar missing room
I was holding on to no one
In a crowded June
[Bridge]
How do you give your heart again
When the first time took it all
I keep waiting for that rush
But it never comes at all
I say I’m fine
I say I’m trying
But every touch is proof
I’m still standing in that winter
Walking next to you
[Chorus]
Snow kept falling
World kept turning
I just never turned too
Left my trust in frozen footprints
That melted back to blue
Now it’s hard for me to fall
Every start feels halfway through
’Cause the part of me that’s open
Never left you
[Outro]
Snow kept falling
Years kept crawling
I stay fourteen in my mind
First love taught me how to lose
Now I lose you every time

Minimal sad-pop ballad with male vocals, close-miked and intimate. Soft piano leads with subtle felt texture; distant pads bloom in choruses like cold air in the lungs. First chorus stays small, second adds hushed harmonies and a low, pulsing kick for weight. Bridge strips back to almost solo vocal, then final chorus swells gently with layered oohs and a lingering reverb tail., sad