[Intro] Porch light on Kettle talking Your mother in the doorway Like time works for her [Verse 1] She put another plate down like the night still had room Asked if I took cream like I was already kept You rolled your eyes and you smiled like this was our doom And I sat there grateful for a house that had not left The radio in the kitchen played a song I did not know Steam on the window, leaves stuck to the screen She talked about the orchard road like it was years ago Then she looked at me looking at you And she saw the whole scene [Pre-Chorus] You mouthed sorry I shook my head I would have stayed Till the clocks went dead [Chorus] Your mother kept us late And I let her do the crime She poured the good hours Like they still had time Your mother kept us late With a pot and a chair I fell for a house With you sitting there [Verse 2] She told a story about you at sixteen in that same coat You tried to shut it down and she just talked through you I learned more in that kitchen than I learned on the road How you take your pride How you hide the true She refilled my cup without asking if I wanted more She asked what I did and she listened like it mattered You watched me answer like I was walking through a door You were not sure you opened And I was already captured [Pre-Chorus] You mouthed later I said I know The house had us And I would not go [Chorus] Your mother kept us late And I let her do the crime She poured the good hours Like they still had time Your mother kept us late With a pot and a chair I fell for a house With you sitting there [Verse 3] There was a clock above the stove that did not care who we were It just pushed the night across the tile in small mean jumps You started gathering plates like leaving was a cure She said sit, the pie is coming, and you sat like a kid who lost I should have stood I should have saved us from the warm Instead I learned the sound of that house settling in And I have been trying to get back to that ordinary storm Where somebody kept us And called it nothing then [Bridge] It was not a speech It was not a plan It was coffee and a second slice And your mother in command If love has a room That was the room I chose Not the orchard Not the coat The late light And the closed [Breakdown] Stay She said it without saying Stay You hated that it worked Stay I still hear the kettle When the present goes to dirt [Chorus] Your mother kept us late And I let her do the crime She poured the good hours Like they still had time Your mother kept us late With a pot and a chair I fell for a house With you sitting there [Final Chorus] Your mother kept us late Do not laugh that part off That kitchen made a season Out of cheap talk and cloth Your mother kept us late If you tell it, leave her in She kept the night open And I walked right in [Outro] Door we did not use Clock we did not watch I still sit In a chair That is not mine Waiting For the pot To talk
