Lyrics
The bell on the door of Portland Nursery sighs.
Late March, and the frost is still behind your eyes.
You're walking through the annuals alone,
Tracing the lip of a cool terra cotta stone.
[Chorus]
And oh, the faith it takes for common dirt,
To trust the soil after all that hurt.
Some taproots have to find the fallow ground.
[Verse 2]
I remember last year, the playful way you fought.
"The bleeding hearts," he said, "are what we haven't got."
You laughed and bought the Shasta daisies then.
I watch you pass their empty section again.
[Chorus]
And oh, the faith it takes for common dirt,
To trust the soil after all that hurt.
Some taproots have to find the fallow ground.
[Bridge]
Companion planting for a life of one,
Choosing the seeds that bolt toward the sun.
A quiet promise that you haven't given up.
[Outro]
You carry all that future to the desk.
I ring you up and try to catch my breath.
About Karen Wren
Karen Wren was raised in the quiet, rain-soaked suburbs of Portland, Oregon. After leaving the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in her third year, feeling disconnected from its rigid classicism, she returned home with a mountain of student debt and her grandmother's Japanese folk songbook. She writes her lush, melancholic piano ballads in the pre-dawn quiet of her small apartment before her…
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