Ember
Lyrics
The house has gone to sleep now
The album's almost done
Every storm this record carried
Has been carried, one by one
And you'd think a life this weathered
Would be ashes at the grate
But lean in close to the middle of me
There's a red glow, working late
It's not the fire it was at twenty
It doesn't need to be
The blaze was for the burning years
The ember's for the keep
Ember
Still lit
Ember
Tended it
Through the flood
Through the drift
Glowing
Glowing
The night never took it
It survived the undertow
It rode the frozen dark
It waited out the shallows
And the driveway and the sparks
Every song was just this ember
Wearing weather like a coat
Ten storms deep and glowing still
That's the only thing I wrote
That's the only thing I ever wrote
So if you've made it this far in
Through the water and the white
Cup your hands around your middle
Feel that? You kept yours alight
Ember
Still lit
Ember
You tended it
Through your flood
Through your drift
Glowing
Glowing
The night never took it
Ten songs of weather
One small fire the whole way through
Ember
Still here
Ember
Every year
Bank it low
Let it keep
Glowing
Glowing
Goodnight, not goodbye
Leave it glowing in the grate
It'll light the next one