Darlingside - Clay & Cast Iron lyrics

Clay and cast-iron, rum-colored silver sungla**es White gold, sapphire, and apricot soap French leather purses and saris with painted-on flowers The smell of old cedar and jasmine perfume Fig trees, bottles of milk, and sewing machines The ring Baba gave you that you used to leave by the sink I gave you away You told me you take your Darjeeling black with a scone And, "Always remove your shoes in a home." That I was your shadow and keeper of secrets and standards "A gentleman's only as good as his word." Ice-skating in Kansas City, Crown Center alight I said I'd be there in a minute I stayed on the ice I gave you away