The Lesser Birds Of Paradise - Take the Leaves lyrics

[Verse 1] When the coffee's grown cold I feel, tired and old And the soles of my shoes have worn thin When sometimes I ache and regret my mistakes And I don't know just where to begin [Chorus] Take the leaves from the street Where she stood next to me And scatter them under my bed Take her bracelets and her rings And her other precious things And bury them in the place that we met [Verse 2] Well her eyes were blue, when she sat next to you And she gave you a ribbon from her hair As her eyes turned grey you knew, she'd deceive you someday And she knew that you really wouldn't care [Chorus] Well her eyes were blues, when she walked away from you And she slipped a robin's egg in to my hand As she turned away I knew, she'd deceive me someday And she hopes that maybe I'd understand [Chorus]