What's Left Of The Day

from The Powdered Earth LP by The Powdered Earth

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Always people passing
In the corridor outside my open doorway
And sometimes, without warning,
One of them comes inside to stay
They’ll bring a bunch of flowers
And clip them neat and put them in the window thing
And ask me if the last ones
Are ready for recycling

What’s left of the day
I am left to wonder
Where the kindness came from
And will it come again

A woman brings me ice cream
And a glass of milk to drink
I don’t know how she knew my favourites
It’s impossible to think
A younger chap arrives and wheels me out into the garden
For a summer stroll
We talk about the trees and birds and butterflies and temperatures
And fields of gold

What’s left of the day
I am left to wonder
Where the kindness came from
And will it come again
Who’ll be my next friend

The flower lady calls me darling
The young man calls me dad
The ice cream woman calls me Harry
She wrote it on my pad
When I play my Mozart records
She comes in to turn the volume up
She says it fills the corridor
Like honey dripping from a magic cup

What’s left of the day
I am left to wonder
Where the music comes from
It’s heaven I am sure
It spills out of the door

All the faces close to me
Like debris on a sea
A floating cabaret

Like the bracelet on your arm
The chains from charm to charm
They dissolve away

There was a picture in a room
But I can’t lift the broom
To clear the way

I had a whole world on a string
But time’s unravelling
The threads of yesterday

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from The Powdered Earth LP, track released September 25, 2020
written and produced by George Moorey & Shane Young
mastered by Katie Tavini

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The Powdered Earth are Gloucester, UK based writer/producer duo George Moorey and Shane Young.

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