Kiran Leonard - Fireplace lyrics

Lagavulin The old photographs that I kept Lagavulin The dents in the bed where you slept Lagavulin How can I know what the lights reveal And sift through the debris to find what was real Little darling The damp of the gra** where we kissed Little darling The ribbon that curled round your wrist Little darling How did it fumble and burst on the rocks Left to decay and thrown to the flocks And how can I know if the sycamore talks I should have known It was not within you to have cared Too outgrown To accept it was not what we shared I clasped the roots And repeated the things that it said How could I know that the fear remained And fight to decode the terror you gained Your weakness was how you enjoyed the unknown Now you sleep through the days and the nights alone I miss the house And the thin layer of frost on the panes And spite my youth And the sore emptiness of my veins In spite of it all I cannot quite remember your name How did I cope when I found you weren't there And toil with the truth that you never did care And won't come to lie at my fireplace Evelyn closed her eyes saw the light turned to face How could I know if the cracks revealed The dark tenderness of the sting and yield Rinsed from the days of the old baptist hall The long summer haze and the bat and ball And everything goes down the hole in the sink When you're numb and there's not enough to drink Died in the night just to sleep through the days But won't you come back to my fireplace And how will I come to the end of the bridge That I found myself at when I fell off the ridge Sleep through the days cause I've got time to k** And hope that I wake with my body laid still Just to escape all the words in my head Evelyn on my lips as I climb out of bed And when I'm awake I just scream for release And I toil in my sleep, but the sleep brings me peace So I won't shed tears if I just cease to be And I don't mind much if you don't long for me I'll learn to forgive all the memories you bring When you burnt all my letters with your wedding ring And yet I still care, and I'd hold you closely Thankful and patient through sweet misery We all got in suits, and we wished you the best But still I wait for you to be put to rest