Love Songs for Erin

• Washed Up Just Right

  Jazz standard · Jazz · Upright bass · Crooner

  A quiet, plainspoken love song for Erin, built around something small and plastic that survived the tide, when so much else didn't.

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  Verse 1

  Found a bucket stuck in the weed grey water, nothing much to see but it held on through the whole tide and that's the thing you are to me

  Chorus

  Erin, you're the one thing standing when the winter wrecks the rest not the loudest, not the finest Erin, you're still the best

  Verse 2

  Everything else got carried off the rope, the nets, the wood, the shore but you stayed put beside me you're the part I'm keeping for

  Pre-chorus

  I don't need a better story I don't need a finer sign just the way you kept on standing

  Chorus

  Erin, you're the one thing standing when the winter wrecks the rest not the loudest, not the finest Erin, you're still the best

  Bridge

  Some things wash up battered, faded some things go back out to sea you stayed cracked and still worth keeping that's enough of proof for me

  Chorus

  Erin, you're the one thing standing when the winter wrecks the rest not the loudest, not the finest Erin, you're still the best

  Outro

  Grey water, one small bucket and you, still here, still mine

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• Heavy Enough to Keep

  Irish air · Irish · Whistle · Lilting

  A steady, plainspoken love song for Erin, built from the image of carrying something heavy and choosing to keep carrying it. Good for new love, old love, or anything that has lasted through the packing and unpacking of a life.

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  Verse 1

  We packed the records into boxes Under a sign that hummed and flickered Heavy metal, heavier still to lift You laughed and said you'd take the weight

  Pre-chorus

  I said I'd carry it if you asked You said you never had to ask And something in me leaned in closer

  Chorus

  Erin, you're the weight I choose Nothing about you I'd refuse Steady under that neon light Erin, you make the carrying light

  Verse 2

  Years from now the boxes might be gone The sign outside might not still glow But I'll remember how you stood there Bearing more than anyone should know

  Pre-chorus

  I said I'd carry it if you asked You said you never had to ask And something in me leaned in closer

  Chorus

  Erin, you're the weight I choose Nothing about you I'd refuse Steady under that neon light Erin, you make the carrying light

  Bridge

  Some loves are loud, some loves are quiet Ours was never built to prove a thing You just picked it up and kept on walking And I kept walking too

  Chorus

  Erin, you're the weight I choose Nothing about you I'd refuse Steady under that neon light Erin, you make the carrying light

  Outro

  Somewhere a sign is still buzzing quietly And I would carry you home again

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• Under the Rust

  Bossa nova · Bossa · Nylon guitar · Breezy

  A quiet, plainspoken love song for Erin, built from a small still image of grass surviving under old iron, that turns outward into steady devotion. Good for a long love or a new one that already feels sure.

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  Verse 1

  You found green under the rust where the frost had turned to crust nothing there was meant to grow I saw it and thought of trust

  Pre-chorus

  You don't ask the ground for much just enough light, just one touch and still you keep reaching through

  Chorus

  Erin, you hold on like that grass does under the axle, past what was steady when the whole field's bare Erin, that's the reason I love

  Verse 2

  Some things get left in a yard rusting slow, worn down hard you never once looked away you called it beautiful, scarred

  Pre-chorus

  You don't ask the ground for much just enough light, just one touch and still you keep reaching through

  Chorus

  Erin, you hold on like that grass does under the axle, past what was steady when the whole field's bare Erin, that's the reason I love

  Bridge

  I don't need the field to change I just need you to stay however quiet, however plain that's enough for every day

  Chorus

  Erin, you hold on like that grass does under the axle, past what was steady when the whole field's bare Erin, that's the reason I love

  Outro

  Still green under all that rust still here, and that's enough

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