Lyrics
Tuesday at The Matador, she traces the rim of her glass
Pruning the conversation back to the stem real fast
Before it can flower into what he did again
A well-tended garden of all the ways this has to end
[Chorus]
You got that dormant season in your eyes
A killing frost you keep inside
A love that's gone to ground but won't quite die
[Verse 2]
He says "Babe, you've been quiet since we left the house"
She just rearranges the salt shaker south
Every question he plants is in the wrong kind of soil
Waiting for the inevitable, bitter recoil
[Chorus]
You got that dormant season in your eyes
A killing frost you keep inside
A love that's gone to ground but won't quite die
[Bridge]
She looks out at the wet Portland street
But her stare is a thousand miles of sun-bleached heat
It's the desert dust before the first hard rain
Trying to hold its shape inside the pain
[Outro]
Gone to ground
But it won't die
About Kailani Cove
Kailani Cove was raised by her Apache grandmother in the New Mexico desert town of Truth or Consequences. At 19, she left for the rain-soaked anonymity of Portland, Oregon, with nothing but a bus ticket. Her songs, written on a vintage Wurlitzer her mom won in a poker game, are intimate dispatches from the space between two worlds, mapping the emotional territory of a past you can't shake and a…
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