Song Description
A deeply lyrical reflection of the loss of a lover. "The remnants of love make a strange souvenir/ Even stranger when you start to hoard them"
Lyric winner of American Songwriter and Austin Songwriters Group 2024 song contest
| Song Length |
3:25 |
Genre |
Folk - Americana, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant, Moving |
Subject |
Regret, Loneliness |
| Similar Artists |
Lyle Lovett, Jesse Colin Young |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Love Washes Off
©2024 Michael R. J. Roth & Eric Ramsey
He wears the nicotine cologne of an old French poem
Keeps the dead leaves of romance in boxes
He doesn't know if he's seeing the light
Or if his eyes are adjusting to darkness
He remembers his fingers tracing her skin
Seeking something much deeper than flesh
Thinking, what kind of braille is this
And wondering, what kind of blindness
There's a scar on his heart he can't peel off
That she left there when she flew away
And Don Quixote's last words were lost
In the breath of a windmill in Spain
Chorus:
Between the broken oaks and the boats
On the beach of a storm-ravaged bay
He stands on the shore in an old navy coat
While his love washes off in the waves
The dried apricot of Van Gogh's ear
Is covered by dust on the floorboards
The remnants of love make a strange souvenir
Even stranger when you start to hoard them
He wakes on a destitute morning
To the taunt of a mockingbird's call
He says, I miss you most of all, darling
When you don't think of me at all
Chorus:
Between the broken oaks and the boats
On the beach of a storm-ravaged bay
He stands on the shore in an old navy coat
While his love washes off in the waves