Songs for Kenneth

Verse 1

Four green bottles on the floor Cold linoleum, nothing more But the kitchen fills up fast Once you walk in the door

Pre-chorus

Somebody's pouring, somebody's grinning Somebody's counting how this night is beginning So lift your glass and get ready, Ken

Chorus

Kenneth, Kenneth, light of the room Every party finds its tune when You come laughing through that door We've been waiting, here you are again

Verse 2

One more bottle, one more toast You're the one we love the most Cake is melting, candles bending Nobody minds it, that's the host

Pre-chorus

Somebody's pouring, somebody's grinning Somebody's counting how this night is beginning So lift your glass and get ready, Ken

Chorus

Kenneth, Kenneth, light of the room Every party finds its tune when You come laughing through that door We've been waiting, here you are again

Bridge

Here's to the years behind and the ones ahead Here's to the table where you always led Every glass we raise tonight Says the words we mean instead

Chorus

Kenneth, Kenneth, light of the room Every party finds its tune when You come laughing through that door We've been waiting, here you are again

Outro

Four green bottles, empty now We raised them all for you somehow

Verse 1

Boots stacked up by the door Rake gone rusty in the shed You track mud through every floor And we love the mess you spread

Pre-chorus

Grab a candle, grab a chair Turn the music up right now Something's building in the air

Chorus

Kenneth, this is your loud day Everybody sing it when We won't do this the quiet way Happy birthday, Kenneth, Ken

Verse 2

Garden's wrecked from all your plans Grass gave up a while ago You just clap your dirty hands Plant more chaos, watch it grow

Pre-chorus

Grab a candle, grab a chair Turn the music up right now Something's building in the air

Chorus

Kenneth, this is your loud day Everybody sing it when We won't do this the quiet way Happy birthday, Kenneth, Ken

Bridge

Every year you dig back in Never scared to start again Muddy boots and stubborn grin That's the shape of you, my friend

Chorus

Kenneth, this is your loud day Everybody sing it when We won't do this the quiet way Happy birthday, Kenneth, Ken

Outro

Leave the boots right by the rake We'll cheer loud enough to shake

Verse 1

A frame beside the door held by hands before your fingerprints still there pressed in with such care

Pre-chorus

Every mark that you have made every year that never fades builds to what we came to say

Chorus

Kenneth, light the candles now Kenneth, take your bow every year has made you shine happy birthday, Kenneth, it's your time

Verse 2

That glass has gone all grey smudged from every day but under all that haze we see you, full of grace

Chorus

Kenneth, light the candles now Kenneth, take your bow every year has made you shine happy birthday, Kenneth, it's your time

Bridge

We could wipe the glass clean but we'd lose what your years have seen so we leave the smudges be proof of all you mean to we

Chorus

Kenneth, light the candles now Kenneth, take your bow every year has made you shine happy birthday, Kenneth, it's your time

Outro

That frame will hold you still long after this candle's spilled