Love Songs for Bertie

• Slope

  Dream pop · Reverb · Hazy

  A quiet love song for anyone named Bertie, built around lying still together in tall grass and meaning it without saying much.

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  Verse 1

  Grass is bending over both of us Wool blanket keeping out the chill You go quiet when the light gets low And somehow that quiet says you will

  Pre-chorus

  I could name a hundred small things Ways you hold a room so easy But it comes down to one plain fact

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the one I'm certain of No performance, nothing showy or flirty Just this field and the weight of your hand Bertie, thirty years could never be too many

  Verse 2

  You laugh at something in the wind Pull the blanket further round my knee Nobody else gets this version of you And I know that's just for me

  Bridge

  Some loves shout across a party Some loves burn out fast and hot Ours just settles like the evening Steady, easy, asking not

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the one I'm certain of No performance, nothing showy or flirty Just this field and the weight of your hand Bertie, thirty years could never be too many

  Outro

  Grass will straighten when we're gone But I'll still feel you holding on

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• Warm in My Hands

  Irish air · Irish · Whistle · Lilting

  A plain, sincere love song for Bertie, built around the small comfort of something warm held close, for any kind of love, new or old or quiet.

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  Verse 1

  Yellow paper, twisted tight holding all that salt and bite you're the warmth I carry home never once wanting to be alone

  Pre-chorus

  I could name a hundred small things every one of them still sings but it's you that makes them true

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the warm I hold better than a story told nothing fancy, nothing flirty just my heart, and it says Bertie

  Verse 2

  Some folk dress their love up smart mine's a simple, steady heart you don't need the party lights you're the best of all my nights

  Pre-chorus

  I could name a hundred small things every one of them still sings but it's you that makes them true

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the warm I hold better than a story told nothing fancy, nothing flirty just my heart, and it says Bertie

  Bridge

  No need to be sporty or thirty-proof strong just be here beside me, that's never wrong let the wind outside turn the whole world dirty I'm staying in close, I'm staying with Bertie

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the warm I hold better than a story told nothing fancy, nothing flirty just my heart, and it says Bertie

  Outro

  Still that paper's holding tight still you're warm at end of night

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• Bottom Step

  Folk duet · Folk · Harmony · Two voices

  A quiet love song for two mugs cooling on the back step, for the steady, ordinary kind of loving that never needed to be loud.

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  Verse 1

  Two mugs going cold out here Steam has given up and gone You still haven't touched your tea Too busy watching the light come on

  Pre-chorus

  I could sit here half the morning Just to hear you breathe beside me Something's building up in me now

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the reason I sit still Even when the kettle's long run dry I've counted every kind of comfort Bertie, you're the best of what's nearby

  Verse 2

  You blow across the top of yours Like it's still too hot to touch Nothing that we say this morning Needs to carry very much

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the reason I sit still Even when the kettle's long run dry I've counted every kind of comfort Bertie, you're the best of what's nearby

  Bridge

  No need to fill the quiet up One more minute, then we'll rise Whatever else the day is bringing Right now I've got you and this sky

  Chorus

  Bertie, you're the reason I sit still Even when the kettle's long run dry I've counted every kind of comfort Bertie, you're the best of what's nearby

  Outro

  Two mugs left out on the step Long gone cold, and I don't mind

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