[Intro] [Extended Guitar solo, isolated fingerpicked 12-string riff, warm and ringing, like early light, instrumental only] [Verse 1] [hoarse, tender, barely above a whisper, a man remembering her from the very first day] [fingerpicked 12-string only, soft and ringing, drums still absent] I knew you back when your eyes were shut Curled up warm against your mom Then weekends you'd come stay with us Nose down, learning where you'd belong Every Sunday we handed you back And counted weekends till you'd come Then four months old, right to the day You rode home, and the waiting was done [Pre-Chorus] [quiet, honest, a soft smile breaking through, remembering the night she chose him] [second acoustic guitar joins softly, soft bass enters underneath] Barely two hands full of you Not a thing in you built to fight But you curled up asleep on my chest And I was yours from that first night [Chorus] [warming slightly, tender and unguarded, fond and aching at once, a faint distant harmony voice barely audible underneath] [12-string rings fuller, dulcimer accents, bass warm and steady, still no drums] Ears like sails on a four-pound pup That crooked trot down the hall Two weeks home was all we got And you were the biggest thing of all You were only four pounds, only four pounds But you took my whole heart [Verse 2] [a little more breath in the voice now, brightening at the memory of her zooming, then catching on the hard nights] [soft brushed snare and kick enter quietly, easy steady pulse] You'd tear off after Lola and Blackie Zooming laps out in the yard Those ears near as big as Lola's Hair streaming back, legs pumping hard Then the shaking started coming And we sat up with you through every one Too young yet for them to see inside We just held you till it was done [Pre-Chorus] [honest, a shadow in the voice, gentle with the hardest truth] [band settles back, brushes lighter, bass holding low] Something bigger got to you Long before you got to us You came home already carrying it And you never made a fuss [Chorus] [warmer than the first, tender, the faint harmony voice a touch clearer but still distant] [full acoustic band, 12-string ringing, dulcimer, brushed drums steady and soft] Ears like sails on a four-pound pup That crooked trot down the hall Two weeks home was all we got And you were the biggest thing of all You were only four pounds, only four pounds But you took my whole heart [Solo] [gentle, warm 12-string and dulcimer solo, simple melodic lines, like sunlight moving across a floor, instrumental only] [Bridge] [quiet and intimate, spoken-soft singing, talking straight to her, voice nearly breaking, then steadying] [music drops to one fingerpicked guitar, everything else falls away] Lulu, we held you at the end Your ears still soft against my arm We held you till your final breath Till the trembling stopped and you were calm Four pounds shouldn't leave a hole this wide Or make it this hard to turn out the light But I know you're zooming straight up there At peace, and nothing hurting you tonight [Final Chorus] [tender and steady, a little fuller, at peace and letting her go gently, the faint harmony voice staying close underneath, still soft] [full acoustic band returns gently, never loud, fading to the 12-string alone by the last line] Ears like sails in heaven's wind Trotting straight down that golden hall Two weeks home was all we got And you were the biggest thing of all You were only four pounds, only four pounds But you took my whole heart You took my whole heart, Lulu [End]
