Ivory Soap
Style: Jazz standard

[Verse 1]
Steam is clearing slow above the glass
A comb left lying where you set it down
Nothing in this room is asking to be seen
Still I stand here watching like it's cast

[Pre-chorus]
I could name a hundred smaller things
But they all lead back to one
And it's building now, it's building

[Chorus]
Scarlett, you're the calm inside the room
Not a starlet, never needed the costume
Just the soap left sitting on the sill
Scarlett, I keep coming back to you

[Verse 2]
The mirror holds a shape it can't explain
Just a warmth that hasn't left the air
I don't need the picture to stay clear
Some things you feel and don't have to name

[Pre-chorus]
I could name a hundred smaller things
But they all lead back to one
And it's building now, it's building

[Chorus]
Scarlett, you're the calm inside the room
Not a starlet, never needed the costume
Just the soap left sitting on the sill
Scarlett, I keep coming back to you

[Bridge]
No garnet shines the way you do
Nothing carved or built to be a scene
Just a quiet kind of certain
That I'd know anywhere, half asleep

[Chorus]
Scarlett, you're the calm inside the room
Not a starlet, never needed the costume
Just the soap left sitting on the sill
Scarlett, I keep coming back to you

[Outro]
The glass will always find its clear again
And I'll still be here, loving you the same

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