Lyrics
Verse 1
I kept the button off your winter coat I kept the poems in the borrowed script I kept the key to the door we can't go back to I kept the rain in your garden jar, still falling in it
Chorus
I kept it, I kept it Everything else went I kept it, I kept it That's what keeping meant
Verse 2
I kept your tape measure stopped at forty centimetres I kept the thimble, I kept the single earring I kept the letters none of us can read now I kept the thread that's red, for the dress you're learning
Chorus
I kept it, I kept it Everything else went I kept it, I kept it That's what keeping meant
Bridge
One thing was never mine to keep - the dress you didn't sew The thread stayed red, the evening stayed whole, somewhere the wanting goes I keep that too, the way you leave a light on burning for the road
Chorus
I kept it, I kept it Everything else went I kept it, I kept it That's what keeping meant
Outro
The tin rides over my heart The tin rides over my heart Buttoned in, still warm Still warm