The spool unwinds on wooden shelf
Morning light drinks deep itself
Your voice cracks through magnetic dust
My hands remember what they must
The banjo rolls the cello weeps
While water boils and memory keeps
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
We played it once we play again
The song remembers where we've been
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
Fingers trace the plastic spine
Ghost of chorus ghosts of line
Side A held the storm side B the calm
Your thumb pressed pause like a steady palm
Now steam curls round the tangled reel
Two cups wait two hearts heal
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
We played it once we play again
The song remembers where we've been
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
The label faded by salt and thumb
Records where we're from where we've come
Foot stomps floorboards banjo rings
The tape keeps turning while the kettle sings
Magnetic ribbon holds the tide
We ride the chorus side by side
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
We played it once we play again
The song remembers where we've been
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
Morning lifts the window pane
We press play and start again
No lighthouse beam no storm to chase
Just steam and song in this quiet place
The tape runs out the kettle whistles
Two voices join where silence bristles
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
We played it once we play again
The song remembers where we've been
Kettle sings and cassette breathes
Time folds inside these kitchen eaves
The song remembers where we've been
Rewind hums the morning through
Just us two just us two
