Lyric

I found them there at dawn

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Fallen from your white robe

Rolled to the cupboard door

Milk in the silver spoon

Moon in a coffee ring

You left me little constellations

In the ordinary things

I bent down slow

Like I was gathering proof

Your perfume on the tile

Your silence in the room

And every little bead

Caught fire in the shade

As if the night got tangled

In the love we never made

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Pearls where your footsteps were

I held one in my palm

And missed you even more

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Soft as a last good-bye

Shining in the quiet

As I learned to let you slide

The kettle cooled to still

The window held the rain

I laid them in a saucer

Like a shrine to what remains

Your note was in the bread box

Half a line, half a plea

I read it with my fingers

Then let it sleep in me

I wore the ache like satin

Drinking from the dark

The whole room turned to velvet

When I heard my own heart

You were already fading

Before the morning came

But every pearled reflection

Still knew how to say your name

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Pearls where your footsteps were

I held one in my palm

And missed you even more

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Soft as a last good-bye

Shining in the quiet

As I learned to let you slide

Maybe love is this

A spill that keeps its glow

A broken string of moments

We kneel to wash and hold

So I leave them there

By the old blue china bowl

Small bright moons for memory

To wander through my soul

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Pearls where your footsteps were

I held one in my palm

And missed you even more

Pearls on the kitchen floor

Soft as a last good-bye

Shining in the quiet

As I learned to let you slide

Pearls on the kitchen floor

I know what I came to find

Beauty can be broken

And still remain divine