Love Songs for Ella

• One Mug at the Tap

  Country waltz · Country · Waltz · Pedal steel

  A quiet country waltz about washing a single mug and feeling the whole of a love in that small, ordinary act. Good for new love, old love, or any love that has settled into the everyday.

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  Verse 1

  I hold this mug beneath the tap and I am thinking of your face the water runs, my hands go slow because I'm in no kind of race

  Chorus

  Ella, this is how I love you steady, plain, and never rushed not some grand and burning fire just this quiet that I trust

  Verse 2

  You left this cup out on the ledge one small sign that you were here I turn it over in the light and something in my chest goes clear

  Pre-chorus

  I could dress it up in bigger words call it fate or call it flame but the truth sits smaller than all that

  Chorus

  Ella, this is how I love you steady, plain, and never rushed not some grand and burning fire just this quiet that I trust

  Bridge

  No one sees this moment but me just suds and steam and your name I wouldn't trade it for anything louder

  Chorus

  Ella, this is how I love you steady, plain, and never rushed not some grand and burning fire just this quiet that I trust

  Outro

  I'll set this mug back on the shelf still loving you when the water's still

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• Steady on the Line

  Irish air · Irish · Whistle · Lilting

  A quiet, sincere love song for Ella, built from the small ordinary act of hanging washing together and what it says about staying.

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  Verse 1

  Two wooden pegs click in my hand I hold the sheet, you hold the line We hang the wet day out to dry Nothing about us feels like design

  Pre-chorus

  It's not the big words that I trust It's how you stay when mornings turn So say the name and watch it burn

  Chorus

  Ella, you're the calm I lean on Ella, steady through the grey Nobody holds a line like you do Nothing shifts you, come what may

  Verse 2

  The pegs don't hold much, only cloth But you hold on to far more than that You keep the ordinary things from falling And that's no small thing to be at

  Chorus

  Ella, you're the calm I lean on Ella, steady through the grey Nobody holds a line like you do Nothing shifts you, come what may

  Bridge

  I've watched love get loud and lose its way But yours just clicks in place and stays

  Chorus

  Ella, you're the calm I lean on Ella, steady through the grey Nobody holds a line like you do Nothing shifts you, come what may

  Outro

  The sheets come in, folded and dry You're still the one I'm standing by

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• Corner of the Desk

  Soul waltz · Soul · Organ · Swaying

  A quiet soul waltz about the small, unplanned moments where love actually happens, built from two sleeves brushing at a crowded desk.

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  Verse 1

  Two sleeves touching, nothing said Room too loud and table spread Still I felt you close to me That small space was all I'd need

  Pre-chorus

  Nobody else was looking then I wasn't watching for it, when Something settled, quiet, true

  Chorus

  Ella, that's the moment I knew Nothing loud, just me and you Stella never held me so Ella, this is how I know

  Verse 2

  Papers scattered, chairs too close You laughed at something, I don't know what Elbow bumped and stayed right there Neither of us moved an inch

  Bridge

  I don't need the grand or gold Just this staying, growing old Ordinary rooms turned right When you're the one inside the light

  Chorus

  Ella, that's the moment I knew Nothing loud, just me and you Stella never held me so Ella, this is how I know

  Outro

  Sleeves still touching, years gone by You're still the reason I don't move

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