Slipping in 7/8

(ah) You leave your keys by the stone terrace

Cold iron clinking in the dark

Counting seven beats to cross the hallway

Waiting for the match to spark (hmmm)

Step once, step twice,

out of time

You tell me it was never mine

Say it slowly in the doorway

Tell me how you meant no harm (say it now)

Every silent word you borrow

Leaves a cut along my arm

Salt on the lemon by the bedpost

Glass sweating under heavy air

You turn around before you answer

Running both hands through your hair

(always the same)

Step once, step twice,

out of time

I watch you cross another line

Say

it slowly in the doorway

Tell me how you meant no harm (say it now)

Every silent word you borrow

Leaves a cut along my arm

Seven

counts until you

walk away

(one, two, three)