Notice It While It’s Here | Soul Blues Song About Gratitude - Eli Rowan

[Verse 1] The coffee’s warm, the house is quiet Morning leaning through the blinds Somebody’s humming in the kitchen Somebody’s running out of time But nobody knows it in the moment That’s the strange and tender part We keep calling life ordinary Till it’s gone and breaks our heart I’ve spent years looking backward At the things I couldn’t keep Now I’m trying to learn the language Of the good before it leaves [Chorus] Notice it while it’s here The hand inside your hand The laugh across the table The little things you never planned Notice it while it’s here Before the picture disappears Don’t wait until you miss it To know you loved it Notice it While it’s here [Verse 2] There’s a shirt thrown on the bedroom chair A light left on upstairs Shoes beside the doorway Somebody’s still living there And maybe that’s the miracle Not fireworks in the sky Maybe love is all the quiet proof We walk right past each night A voice calling from the hallway A name spoken from another room Funny how the smallest sounds Can make a whole house bloom [Chorus] Notice it while it’s here The hand inside your hand The laugh across the table The little things you never planned Notice it while it’s here Before the picture disappears Don’t wait until you miss it To know you loved it Notice it While it’s here [Instrumental Turn] Piano and Hammond, with a restrained blues-guitar answer. [Verse 3] I used to think happiness Would announce itself somehow A door would open, bells would ring And I’d know I had it now But most of what I miss today Never looked like much back then A Tuesday night A half-told joke A place I thought I’d see again So these days when the room gets still I try not to rush away I let the ordinary happen And call it What it is A day [Bridge — nearly bare] One day Someone will clear the table One day Someone will close the door One day The room will look exactly the same And somehow Not be home anymore So while the light is in the window While the voices still are near I’m learning not to save my gratitude For later I want to notice it While it’s here [Final Chorus] Notice it while it’s here The hand inside your hand The laugh across the table The life you didn’t understand Notice it while it’s here Before the picture disappears Don’t wait until you miss it To know you loved it Notice it While it’s here [Outro] The coffee’s warm The house is quiet Morning leaning through the blinds And for once I know This is the good part While it’s still mine