Saltwater Leather

[Verse 1] Salt crust on the collar, sun-bleached to bone Your jacket in my closet still hums a low tone I pull the zipper slow and the room turns to foam Every pocket keeps a beach we used to own [Pre-Chorus] Threads unravel softly, indigo and frayed A postcard from the coastline where our summer stayed My hands learn the lining like a prayer that I prayed The salt becomes a language only I have made [Chorus] Saltwater leather on my skin Wear the tide until it wears me thin Hold the wind, hold the broken-in blue I still breathe the shoreline inside of you Saltwater leather, hold me through [Verse 2] Buckled at the shoulder, freckled at the seam The map of every sunburn folded in a dream I wear it to the bus stop, wear it to the stream The ocean in the stitches hums a softer theme [Pre-Chorus] Threads unravel softly, indigo and frayed A postcard from the coastline where our summer stayed My hands learn the lining like a prayer that I prayed The salt becomes a language only I have made [Chorus] Saltwater leather on my skin Wear the tide until it wears me thin Hold the wind, hold the broken-in blue I still breathe the shoreline inside of you Saltwater leather, hold me through [Instrumental Solo] [Bridge] Salt and skin and cedar, summer in the threads Every tear I mended kept the sea in my head If the jacket fades to nothing, may the salt stay instead May the salt stay instead [Chorus] Saltwater leather on my skin Wear the tide until it wears me thin Hold the wind, hold the broken-in blue I still breathe the shoreline inside of you Saltwater leather, hold me through [Outro] Saltwater leather Saltwater leather