Songs for Isabelle

Verse 1

Water runs over the half peeled skin Suds climb up and pull me in One thin bubble drifts and floats You laugh at something in your throat

Pre-chorus

Small rooms hold the biggest things Simple work is where love clings Something in me starts to swell

Chorus

Isabelle, you make the ordinary shine Every plain thing turns to sign Isabelle, I'd choose this over gold This soap, this sink, this hand to hold

Verse 2

Steam climbs warm against the glass Minutes here I never want to pass You hum some tune you half forget Peel falls soft, your fingers wet

Pre-chorus

Small rooms hold the biggest things Simple work is where love clings Something in me starts to swell

Chorus

Isabelle, you make the ordinary shine Every plain thing turns to sign Isabelle, I'd choose this over gold This soap, this sink, this hand to hold

Bridge

No need for candles or for speeches Love lives in what a moment teaches Right here, with your sleeves rolled high I mean this more than I can say

Chorus

Isabelle, you make the ordinary shine Every plain thing turns to sign Isabelle, I'd choose this over gold This soap, this sink, this hand to hold

Outro

One last bubble catches light and falls Nothing here has ever felt this full

Verse 1

Brown leaves stuck to damp gravel Metal can gone dull with rain Nothing here was made to matter But you make it matter again

Pre-chorus

I keep finding you in small things In the hush before the day gets loud Something in me starts to rise now

Chorus

Isabelle, you steady me like nothing else No performance, nothing to sell Just you standing in the morning light Isabelle, Isabelle, that's enough to swell

Verse 2

You crouch to touch the wet ground Like it deserves your care as well I watch you and I understand How quiet love can learn to dwell

Bridge

I don't need the season to turn I don't need a single thing to change You, right here, plain as water Already more than I could arrange

Chorus

Isabelle, you steady me like nothing else No performance, nothing to sell Just you standing in the morning light Isabelle, Isabelle, that's enough to swell

Outro

The leaves will lift when the wind decides But I'm staying here, right by your side

Verse 1

The post sits there unopened still Steam stopped rising from the mugs We forgot them talking half the night Isabelle, that's how you break my will

Pre-chorus

Nothing on that stack of envelopes Matters half as much as this And I'm leaning closer now

Chorus

Isabelle, you make the hours slow You're the reason I don't want to go Every ordinary thing turns gold Isabelle, it's you I want to know

Verse 2

Some nights we say almost nothing Just sit here while the light goes dim Your hand rests easy on the wood I could stay right where I've been

Bridge

Let the tea go cold again Let the letters wait till morning I'm not moving from this chair Not while you're still sitting there

Chorus

Isabelle, you make the hours slow You're the reason I don't want to go Every ordinary thing turns gold Isabelle, it's you I want to know

Outro

Two cups gone cold beside the mail Still the warmest place I've been