New Loneliness Lyrics - Oh Little Fire - Sarah Harmer

There is just one apple on the tree 

It isn't like I hoped it'd be 

Yesterday when there was still you 

I looked and I swear that I saw two 

Maybe a wandering white-tailed deer 

Came in the night to make it even more clear 

And left me just one, a Spartan no less 

To remind me of my new loneliness 

There is just one oar leaning against the wall 

What of our plans for paddles in the Fall? 

With the reeds grown high in a winding maze 

We were to follow old waterways 

Maybe a hovering dragonfly 

Will rest on a cattail and wonder why 

There is no clamoring at the shore 

Of two in a canoe with each an oar 

There is just one pillow on the bed 

Where a solitary someone lays her head 

And a stack of books meant to be read aloud 

Closed and dusty, awaiting a crowd 

Maybe a spider in a high corner 

Keeps his tiny eye on the still mourner 

And waits for the other to slip under the cover 

And relight the dark candle lit between lovers 

And replay the melody made by two lovers