[Verse 1] Oh, pretty boy, you walk the pine With moss on your heel and rain in your hair Your hands are slim as willow twigs And the deer go still when you stand there Your face is a small bright prayer Caught in the lattice of birch and sun I saw you laugh at the cold creek stones And I thought, my love, the worldβs not done [Pre-Chorus] O let the branches bend O let the old grief go Thereβs a moon in your breath And a river below [Chorus] Pretty boy, pretty boy O, pretty boy, stay Pretty boy, pretty boy Donβt wander away Pretty boy, pretty boy You light up the gray Pretty boy, pretty boy O, stay, stay, stay [Instrumental 1] [Verse 2] You lean by the fence of woven leaves Like you were made for a gentler world Your boots are dark with forest mud And your smile is a sparrow unfurled I used to sleep with a lonely wolf And call that faith, and call it grace But you came singing through the firs And the dark fell soft from the treesβ own face [Pre-Chorus] O let the branches bend O let the old grief go Thereβs a fire in your eyes And a thaw in the snow [Chorus] Pretty boy, pretty boy O, pretty boy, stay Pretty boy, pretty boy Donβt wander away Pretty boy, pretty boy You light up the gray Pretty boy, pretty boy O, stay, stay, stay [Instrumental 2] [Bridge] If God is a road, then you are the sign If time is a wound, then you are the balm I heard the trunks all sing your name In the hush between the storm and calm [Final Chorus] Pretty boy, pretty boy O, pretty boy, stay Pretty boy, pretty boy Donβt wander away Pretty boy, pretty boy You light up the gray Pretty boy, pretty boy O, stay, stay, stay [Outro] Pretty boy, pretty boy The woods know your face Pretty boy, pretty boy Come home to this place [Instrumental 3]
