Minor Piano Keys

[Verse 1]

Say, say something nice to her, fragrant and sturdier

Delicate hands for shoulders sliding down

Days, days like a summer rain, blink and they’re gone again

Soakin', she sits alone, outside and down

[Chorus]

Prays, prays for her soldier boy in fire and angry noise

Under the thumb of the Lord

And waits quilting and quietly, her minor piano keys

Slip through the screen on the door

[Verse 2]

Say, say what you mean to her, washing her colander

Eyes on the stranger cresting around the bend

Days, days like the winter snow, linger till heaven knows

Naked, she sings the table grace and then

[Chorus]

Prays, prays for her soldier boy in fire and angry noise

Under the thumb of the Lord

And waits quilting and quietly, her minor piano keys

Slip through the screen on the door