Home for the Winter

[Verse 1] Airport windows fogging with my breath December ticket burning in my chest Every mile of runway pulls me low There's a porch light waiting that I need to know [Pre-Chorus] Snow on the wires, the highway's turning white I count the exits till I'm out of night [Chorus] No matter how far the road has torn me Every winter road bends back to you There's a kettle on and a coat still hanging And a door that never learned to close on me Take me home, take me home for the winter [Verse 2] Streetlamps drawing halos on the frost Your handwriting on the boxes we thought lost The same crooked star up on the shelf The kind of quiet I could never keep myself [Pre-Chorus] Headlights find the turn I've always known I'm one more mile from finally being home [Chorus] No matter how far the road has torn me Every winter road bends back to you There's a kettle on and a coat still hanging And a door that never learned to close on me Take me home, take me home for the winter [Bridge] [soft] All the cities where I lost my name Held their lights up, none of them the same Now the tires slow, the gravel calls And your shadow moves behind the hall [Breakdown] [whispered] I'm here, I'm here I made it before the year [Outro] [Piano] Kettle's warm, the coats still sway Every road just points this way Take me home for the winter Take me home... to stay