Mantelpiece

When I leave

Will you bury me

Under the mantlepiece in my childhood home?

And I can keep

This daydream on repeat

My broken strings and all the songs I couldn't write on lonely nights

I'll play them anyway

I'll play them anyway

And though I see

The thousands look at me

I'm in a memory and it feels so close

I see the trees

They tower over me

The shadows feed upon my size

But in the dark I close my eyes

And play them anyway

I'll play them anyway

And play them anyway

I'll play them anyway

And when you leave

I'll keep you next me

Under the mantelpiece

And play them anyway