Love Songs for Zayd

• Old Mint Wrappers

  Indie folk · Airy · Fingerpicked

  A quiet love song for Zayd built from the small mess in a car's dashboard pocket, the kind of proof that a love has actually been lived in.

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  Verse 1

  Toll tickets curling in the dashboard light Wrappers from a mint we shared You kept the change from every drive Nothing thrown out, nothing spared

  Pre-chorus

  I never plan to keep this stuff But somehow none of it gets tossed Because it all still smells like you

  Chorus

  Zayd, you're the reason I don't clear it out Every scrap still says your name Zayd, I'd know your hand in half the dark You leave your mark, and I'm not the same

  Verse 2

  That receipt is from the night it rained We sat and let the engine run You laughed until the windows steamed Longest hour, over too soon

  Chorus

  Zayd, you're the reason I don't clear it out Every scrap still says your name Zayd, I'd know your hand in half the dark You leave your mark, and I'm not the same

  Bridge

  Some people travel light and free I'd rather carry all of this The clutter is the closeness, love A hundred small unfinished trips

  Chorus

  Zayd, you're the reason I don't clear it out Every scrap still says your name Zayd, I'd know your hand in half the dark You leave your mark, and I'm not the same

  Outro

  One day I'll empty out that pocket But not the one that you have made

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• Frozen at the Gate

  Chamber folk · Chamber · Cello · Delicate

  A quiet, steady love song for Zayd, built from the image of old boots stuck fast in hardened mud, about love that holds its ground.

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  Verse 1

  Boots stuck hard beside the gate Winter came and would not wait You stepped out and left them there Proof that someone still stands where

  Pre-chorus

  Cold got into everything that year Still you never once looked back in fear So let me say what's always been true

  Chorus

  Zayd, you are the one I choose Through the freeze and through the thaw I choose Nothing here has made me sway Zayd, my love was built to stay

  Verse 2

  Mud can freeze and hold a shape Nothing in it wants to break Something in the way you stayed Told me this was never a phase

  Bridge

  Some love runs when the weather turns Yours just settles, yours just burns Quiet, steady, low and true That's the kind I found in you

  Chorus

  Zayd, you are the one I choose Through the freeze and through the thaw I choose Nothing here has made me sway Zayd, my love was built to stay

  Outro

  Come the spring the ground will give But we were never made to shift

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• Water Finds Its Way

  Bossa nova · Bossa · Nylon guitar · Breezy

  A quiet, unhurried love song for Zayd, built from the small comfort of water running over dry wood, plain and steady rather than showy.

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  Verse 1

  Water runs over the old dry spoons softening what the day left hard something in that always calms me you do that too, the same regard

  Pre-chorus

  I never ask you to explain it the way you settle everything down only that you keep on staying

  Chorus

  Zayd, you're the ease that finds me steady as water, never delayed not loud about it, never afraid Zayd, this is how love is made

  Verse 2

  Some things soften slow, not fast patience is a kind of art the bowl fills up, the wood remembers you're the part I keep of my heart

  Pre-chorus

  I never ask you to explain it the way you settle everything down only that you keep on staying

  Chorus

  Zayd, you're the ease that finds me steady as water, never delayed not loud about it, never afraid Zayd, this is how love is made

  Bridge

  No grand flood, no sudden wave just the same warmth, poured again that's the love that keeps, that's stayed

  Chorus

  Zayd, you're the ease that finds me steady as water, never delayed not loud about it, never afraid Zayd, this is how love is made

  Outro

  The spoons dry soft now in the bowl and I am soft too, being played

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