Lyrics
The Stumptown coffee's got a bitter finish now.
We let this feeling steep a little too long, somehow.
You just salt the eggs, and I'll just keep my mouth shut now.
Yeah, we're just proofing in the quiet, and the silence is getting loud.
[Verse 1]
You're moving through my kitchen like a careful stranger.
Scraping the butter thin to stretch out all the danger.
At 9:02 AM you asked, "Want the last of the sourdough?"
But we both know that starter died about a week ago.
[Chorus]
The Stumptown coffee's got a bitter finish now.
We let this feeling steep a little too long, somehow.
You just salt the eggs, and I'll just keep my mouth shut now.
Yeah, we're just proofing in the quiet, and the silence is getting loud.
[Bridge]
Tried to reduce us down to something sweet, yeah.
But all this sustained heat just burned the best of me.
[Outro]
The tap water's gone cold in the glass.
Just dust motes rising, and the moment's passed.
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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