Songs for Lottie

Verse 1

I know a thousand words by heart words for weather, words for art but none of them can hold a room the way yours does right from the start

Pre-chorus

I could talk for hours and say nothing true then I stop and just say you and everything gets clearer

Chorus

Lottie, that's the best word said every language, every book I've read nothing rhymes with how you make me feel but Lottie comes the closest instead

Verse 2

Other names just come and go fill a space and empty slow yours stays lit up on my tongue longer than I'd ever know

Chorus

Lottie, that's the best word said every language, every book I've read nothing rhymes with how you make me feel but Lottie comes the closest instead

Bridge

Say it plain or say it soft it lifts me up like nothing else has one small word, and I'm undone simple as that, sure as that

Chorus

Lottie, that's the best word said every language, every book I've read nothing rhymes with how you make me feel but Lottie comes the closest instead

Outro

I'll keep learning words till I run dry but yours was always the reason why

Verse 1

I hear you laugh across the room and everything goes still and clear it finds me like it always does and pulls me straight back here

Chorus

Lottie, that laugh gives you away it says exactly who you are Lottie, you light up like day the closest thing I have to a star

Verse 2

You laugh with your whole entire chest no holding back, no keeping neat I love that you don't tone it down I love that you don't retreat

Pre-chorus

Some days I forget my own name but never how your laugh sounds it's the thing that keeps me leaning in

Chorus

Lottie, that laugh gives you away it says exactly who you are Lottie, you light up like day the closest thing I have to a star

Bridge

Let the quiet years come if they must I'll still know you by that sound however far this life takes us that laugh will always bring me round

Chorus

Lottie, that laugh gives you away it says exactly who you are Lottie, you light up like day the closest thing I have to a star

Outro

So laugh again across the room I'll still be here, still listening

Verse 1

You look up from across the room and something old wakes up too soon no reason why, no special sign just you again, undoing mine

Chorus

Lottie, I am falling still not by chance and not by will every time I think I know you something new comes through to show you

Verse 2

The kettle clicks, you hum a tune nothing rare about this noon but there it goes, that same old pull quiet and certain, slow and full

Pre-chorus

No grand moment, no big scene just the space where you have been and I am tipping in again

Chorus

Lottie, I am falling still not by chance and not by will every time I think I know you something new comes through to show you

Bridge

Some loves shout and some loves creep mine just settles in to keep and every time I think it's landed it goes deeper than I planned it

Chorus

Lottie, I am falling still not by chance and not by will every time I think I know you something new comes through to show you

Outro

You look up from across the room and I am gone again, for you