The Architecture of Staying

Verse 1

I still turn left at the bottom of the stairs The kitchen is a wall in someone else's house I make the coffee at the same time The same time the same time

Verse 2

Eduardo pressed my shirts and said Thursday The awning fell but the shirts still wait Forty-six photographs of the same rack The same rack the same rack

Chorus

Between going and staying The room wavers I am a pause I am the architecture of staying

Verse 3

Straight lines on paper A floor plan folded small Not heavy - present The way a hand remembers

Chorus

Between going and staying The room wavers I am a pause I am the architecture of staying

Bridge

The gleaners walk behind the machine They pick up what it missed A door that opens onto nothing A door a door a door

Outro

Motionless I stay and go The coffee cools on the counter I will make it again tomorrow Again again again