Lyrics
[Verse 1] You leave the kitchen window open While the kettle learns to sing A blue cup waits beside the saucer For the hands that held everything I trace the grain along the table Where your old keys used to lie The afternoon moves slow and golden And I don’t ask the reason why [Pre-Chorus] If I follow where the quiet turns If I let the tender feeling rise Maybe all the words we never learned Are still alive behind your eyes [Chorus] Stay a little longer in this room Let the softest part of morning find you I can feel the years begin to loosen When your hand is resting in mine too Stay a little longer, don’t let go There are small, beautiful things we know [Verse 2] Your coat is folded by the doorway With a ticket in the seam A train can carry us through winter But it cannot carry every dream You smile and turn the garden water Toward the roses by the wall I hear the summer in the gravel And the promise underneath it all [Pre-Chorus] If I follow where the quiet turns If I let the tender feeling rise Maybe all the words we never learned Are still alive behind your eyes [Chorus] Stay a little longer in this room Let the softest part of morning find you I can feel the years begin to loosen When your hand is resting in mine too Stay a little longer, don’t let go There are small, beautiful things we know [Bridge] No need to name the distance No need to make it small Your shoulder meets my shoulder And that is enough for now [Final Chorus] Stay a little longer in this room Let the softest part of morning find you I can feel the years begin to loosen When your hand is resting in mine too Stay a little longer, don’t let go There are small, beautiful things we know Stay a little longer, breathe in slow I’ll be here wherever you may go [Outro] The kettle cools beside us The open window sways And every little silence Becomes a gentler place
