The Keeper of the Rows

[Intro]
[Verse]
Dusty light on the vine
Everything is doing fine
Golden hour starts to lean
Through the thick and tangled green
Gate is heavy with the rust
Tracing patterns in the dust
[Pre-Chorus]
Paper edges thin and torn
Where the summer seeds were born
Faded ink of marigold
A quiet story to be told
[Chorus]
We leave a ghost in the row
Watching how the flowers grow
Terracotta in the shade
Every little thing we made
Unsung traces of a life
Sharp as any pruning knife
Softly kept in shared ground
Where the quiet things are found
[Post-Chorus]
Just a seed
In the ground
Quietly found
[Verse]
Cracked terracotta in the dirt
Healing every little hurt
A neighbor’s name I used to know
In the place where lilacs grow
She left a map of green and gold
For the younger hands to hold
[Pre-Chorus]
Instruction on the marigold
Keeping out the winter cold
Lines of pencil on the wood
Doing all the good she could
[Chorus]
We leave a ghost in the row
Watching how the flowers grow
Terracotta in the shade
Every little thing we made
Unsung traces of a life
Sharp as any pruning knife
Softly kept in shared ground
Where the quiet things are found
[Bridge]
The piano keys are muted now
Bending like a heavy bough
No one hears the silent prayer
Floating in the garden air
But the roots are digging deep
Secrets that the seasons keep
[Verse]
The shaker rhythm starts to fade
In the light the sun has made
I find a packet by the fence
Making such a quiet sense
Sunflowers reaching for the sky
Asking for no reason why
[Chorus]
We leave a ghost in the row
Watching how the flowers grow
Terracotta in the shade
Every little thing we made
Unsung traces of a life
Sharp as any pruning knife
Softly kept in shared ground
Where the quiet things are found
[Post-Chorus]
Just a seed
In the ground
Quietly found
[Outro]