Lyrics
The Farrow & Ball chart from last September
Is tacked above the door I can't remember
Ever being broken. The fresh plaster's cold.
A story finished that was never told.
[Chorus]
And Anna, this is the peace that we bought
The hard-won quiet that our fighting got
We changed each joist and every slate
And now it's perfect. And it's too late.
[Verse 2]
First night here, on the dust-sheet floors, you said
"No ghosts will follow us to this new bed."
Your hand felt small inside of mine, and brave
Against the futures we were meant to save.
[Chorus]
And Anna, this is the peace that we bought
The hard-won quiet that our fighting got
We changed each joist and every slate
And now it's perfect. And it's too late.
[Bridge]
We unspooled years to pay the mortgage down
Darned every silence in this part of town
Wove a good life from a single thread
And killed the people we were in its stead.
[Outro]
The new paint smells of nothing I recall.
Was it ever you I knew at all?
About Cat Steven
Cat Steven was raised on the Isle of Wight, splitting his weeks between two homes after his parents' divorce: a boat-builder's cottage by the sea and a gardener's house inland. He learned to play on his father's old nylon-string guitar, writing songs to map the emotional distance between his two lives. Now based in Bristol, his music untangles the threads of a life spent in-between, searching for…
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