Keep Your Heart Beside Me

[Verse 1]

You keep the kettle by the window

Where the morning finds the room

And you hum while you are folding

All the shirts we wore in June

I leave my keys beside the blue bowl

You laugh and say, “You’re home again”

Small things hold a life together

Like a door left open when it rains

[Chorus]

Easy, keep your heart beside me

Easy, let the hard day pass

When the road runs long before us

We’ll make a little shelter last

Easy, keep your heart beside me

There is room for both to breathe

With your hand around my shoulder

I can face what waits for me

[Verse 2]

You know every crack in the sidewalk

On the way down to the store

You save the paper for the seedlings

And the good jar for the drawer

When the bus is late on Friday

And the clouds lean on the town

You tell me one more story

Till the rain has settled down

[Chorus]

Easy, keep your heart beside me

Easy, let the hard day pass

When the road runs long before us

We’ll make a little shelter last

Easy, keep your heart beside me

There is room for both to breathe

With your hand around my shoulder

I can face what waits for me

[Bridge]

If the seasons change the view

If the old plans come undone

I will still know where to find you

At the table, in the sun

[Chorus]

Easy, keep your heart beside me

Easy, let the hard day pass

When the road runs long before us

We’ll make a little shelter last

Easy, keep your heart beside me

There is room for both to breathe

With your hand around my shoulder

I can face what waits for me

[Outro]

Keep your heart beside me

We’ll make a little shelter last