Love Songs for Vivienne

• Dust on the Sleeve

  Chamber folk · Chamber · Cello · Delicate

  A quiet love song about the steadiness of long affection, built from the image of a dusty record sleeve and a hand resting on a double bass.

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  Verse 1

  Dust settles slow on the old sleeves nobody plays them like you do you blow it off, you set the needle and the whole room leans toward you

  Chorus

  Vivienne, you make the quiet hum every still thing comes alive the room remembers when you enter Vivienne, that's how I stay so alive

  Verse 2

  Your hand finds the bass without looking you know it the way you know me one low note and the house goes warm that's the only song I need to hear

  Pre-chorus

  I've watched your fingers find that string a thousand quiet nights like this and still I lean in closer when

  Chorus

  Vivienne, you make the quiet hum every still thing comes alive the room remembers when you enter Vivienne, that's how I stay so alive

  Bridge

  No record ever needed you like I do no sleeve holds what your hands hold you make the old things feel unfinished like there's more still to unfold

  Chorus

  Vivienne, you make the quiet hum every still thing comes alive the room remembers when you enter Vivienne, that's how I stay so alive

  Outro

  Dust will settle on the sleeves again but never on the way I feel

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• Salt on the Rail

  Slow R&B · R&B · Electric piano · Smooth

  A slow, plain love song for Vivienne, built around the quiet of a ferry deck and the steadiness of loving someone through it.

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  Verse 1

  Salt is drying on the rail Grey water pulling slow and wide You lean into the wind again Calm like you've got nothing to hide

  Chorus

  Vivienne, you steady every storm Nothing sharp about the way you stay I found something warm in you Vivienne, it hasn't moved away

  Verse 2

  Gulls keep circling overhead Metal cold beneath our hands You don't need the shore in sight You just need to know who stands

  Pre-chorus

  Every deck we've stood on since Every fog we've talked straight through Brings me back to needing this

  Chorus

  Vivienne, you steady every storm Nothing sharp about the way you stay I found something warm in you Vivienne, it hasn't moved away

  Bridge

  No map for where this settles No name for how it feels Just you, quiet on the water Turning tide to something real

  Chorus

  Vivienne, you steady every storm Nothing sharp about the way you stay I found something warm in you Vivienne, it hasn't moved away

  Outro

  The salt will dry and blow off clean But you're the one thing left on me

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• Warm in My Hand

  Soul waltz · Soul · Organ · Swaying

  A quiet love song for anybody named Vivienne, built from an ordinary night in a chip shop queue where nothing much happens except everything does.

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  Verse 1

  Steam on the window, salt in the air You're counting coins you don't even have Someone drops a fork behind the counter You catch my eye like you knew I'd stare

  Pre-chorus

  The bag goes soft and warm between us Nobody's talking, nobody needs to I'm just stood here waiting to say

  Chorus

  Vivienne, the queue could last forever I wouldn't mind, not now, not ever Every small thing turns into a treasure Vivienne, you make the waiting better

  Verse 2

  You tear the bag open careful and slow Give me the bigger half like always I never asked you to, you just know Some kind of love that doesn't grow loud

  Bridge

  Rain starts up outside the door We stay in, we don't need more

  Chorus

  Vivienne, the queue could last forever I wouldn't mind, not now, not ever Every small thing turns into a treasure Vivienne, you make the waiting better

  Outro

  The bag's gone soft, the light's gone low Still the best place I know

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