Found your note inside my coat

Tiny bottle in the lining

Summer folded in the wool

Like a secret I was hiding

Smelled the ocean in the fabric

Salt and sunlight in the thread

Funny how a drop of August

Wakes the ghosts I thought were dead

I tried to pack the past away

When all the leaves turned gold

But memories don’t fade that fast

When they’re stitched into your soul

Leftover sunscreen in December

Warm on frozen skin

Thought I left you in September

But you’re drifting back again

Every corner of this quiet

Still remembers where you’ve been

Leftover sunscreen in December

Summer living in my skin

Scrolling through forgotten pictures

Your laugh just out of sight

Only half of us together

Under neon August light

My window breathes the winter

So I draw a crooked sun

Watching golden drops of water

Like the days we came undone

I tried to wash the colors out

When autumn turned to gray

But sunlight leaves a trace behind

No winter wipes away

Leftover sunscreen in December

Warm on frozen skin

Thought I closed the door forever

But you wander back again

Every corner of this quiet

Still remembers where you’ve been

Leftover sunscreen in December

Summer living in my skin

Maybe I won’t fight it now

Maybe I’ll just let it stay

A little light from yesterday

Guiding me through colder days

Some loves fade like evening skies

Some just softly bend

Turning every frozen moment

Warm again

Leftover sunscreen in December

Soft against the cold

Every trace of you’s a shimmer

In the stories that I hold

If a little bit of summer

Helps a lonely heart begin

Then leftover sunscreen in December

Is where healing starts again