Ashes On The Heather

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[Verse 1]
Snow on the hills
Smoke from the chimneys
Your coat on the chair
Still holding your shape

Tea on the stove
Cold in the kettle
Three rings on the table
Where your glass used to wait

[Chorus]
Ashes on the heather
Your name in the rain
Dance with the ghosts of forever
Turn once more through the ache
Through the ache
If sorrow makes an altar
I’ll kneel in the flame
Ashes on the heather
And I call your name

[Verse 2]
Door never moves
Yet I keep listening
Footsteps in memory
Fall up the stair

Prayer on my tongue
Caught in a whisper [whispered vocals]
“Come back
Come back”
But it hangs in the air

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
If I could mend
Every thread you unraveled
I’d follow each strand
Through the wind
Through the dark

[low vocal register]
Take what I am
Lay me where you have traveled
Let the sky split open
Just to give back your heart

[Chorus]