[Verse 1] You kept the blue blanket I kept the good pan You took half the records I kept the little plant We divided books Chargers Kitchen knives All strangely civil Like you can measure five years By who leaves with the better towels [Chorus] These are the things we kept After we couldn’t keep each other A keyring A jumper Recipes from your mother The things we kept Small pieces without a plan I wonder whether you still use mine The way I’m still using what you left Love went away But not everything went with it [Verse 2] I still make that sauce your way You still know the password to the old account Neither of us has changed it Which somehow feels ridiculous now I kept your habit of locking twice You kept the phrase I used to say Maybe people leave us carrying More than photographs anyway [Bridge] There are parts of you I no longer want back There are parts of me You probably still have Not possession Not longing Just evidence that intimacy Changes the shape of whoever survives it [Final Chorus] These are the things we kept Not because we couldn’t let go Some things simply became ours Before either of us noticed The things we kept No bitterness attached I’m glad some good survived us Even though we didn’t last
