Love Songs for Albie

• The Handle Turns Slow

  Cinematic strings · Cinematic · Strings · Swelling

  A quiet, sincere love song for Albie, built around the small ritual of coming home to someone, for any love, new or long or steady.

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  Verse 1

  Milk bottles wait out on the step The brass handle turns slow and low You're somewhere warm behind that door And that's the only place I go

  Chorus

  Albie, you're the calm I come home to Nothing about you ever feels unplanned Steady as the turning of a handle Albie, I would know you by your hand

  Verse 2

  I don't need the porch light on I know the sound your kettle makes You hum something low and off key And it's the tune my whole day takes

  Pre-chorus

  I've loved you in the plain hours The ones nobody writes a song about This is where the feeling starts to shout

  Chorus

  Albie, you're the calm I come home to Nothing about you ever feels unplanned Steady as the turning of a handle Albie, I would know you by your hand

  Bridge

  You never make me knock twice No performance, no goodbyes rehearsed Whatever door I'm standing at You already had it open first

  Chorus

  Albie, you're the calm I come home to Nothing about you ever feels unplanned Steady as the turning of a handle Albie, I would know you by your hand

  Outro

  The bottles will still be waiting But I'm already through the door

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• The Weight I Choose

  Acoustic soul · Acoustic · Soul · Warm

  A quiet love song about carrying the small, ordinary weight of a shared life without complaint, built from the image of a shared bag handle stretching between two hands.

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  Verse 1

  One handle, and we split it even You take the heavy side again I never once said put it down Some weight I carry without grieving

  Pre-chorus

  It is not much, a bag, a load But you make plain things feel like home I am not scared of where this goes

  Chorus

  Albie, you make the ordinary hold Plastic stretching thin but never cold Whatever bends, I bend it too Albie, I chose you, I still choose

  Verse 2

  Some nights the walk home takes forever You hum a tune I half remember I watch your hand around the strap Steady, like you'll hold it whenever

  Chorus

  Albie, you make the ordinary hold Plastic stretching thin but never cold Whatever bends, I bend it too Albie, I chose you, I still choose

  Bridge

  No grand thing said, no promise sworn Just this, and this, and being worn Together, easy, nothing forced

  Chorus

  Albie, you make the ordinary hold Plastic stretching thin but never cold Whatever bends, I bend it too Albie, I chose you, I still choose

  Outro

  Both our hands still on the same thin line Steady now, and always mine

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• Orange Light

  Chamber folk · Chamber · Cello · Delicate

  A quiet love song built from an ordinary walk home, for anyone you love without needing a reason to say why.

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  Verse 1

  A puddle holds the streetlamp's glow Rusted chains, the bikes stand slow I walk this street a hundred times But you turn it into something fine

  Chorus

  Albie, you're the warmth I find In the ordinary, in the grey and mild Albie, steady, close and true Every plain thing shines near you

  Verse 2

  No one else would stop to see Orange light on old debris But you notice what gets left behind And that's the kindest thing, that's your kind

  Pre-chorus

  I never needed grand or new Just this street, just this view And you beside me, leaning in

  Chorus

  Albie, you're the warmth I find In the ordinary, in the grey and mild Albie, steady, close and true Every plain thing shines near you

  Bridge

  Some loves come with fireworks lit Ours came quiet, and it fit No need to shout it from a height You're the calm inside my night

  Chorus

  Albie, you're the warmth I find In the ordinary, in the grey and mild Albie, steady, close and true Every plain thing shines near you

  Outro

  The puddle fades, the light moves on But what you gave me still stays warm

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