An apple tart, wafting on the window Caked in lore, baked in love for me Those old ghosts won’t sit still and keep their oars out They’re rippling up a tide, it’s deep and it’s wide It floods the kitchen with memory, brings smiling and beguiling You bake on, blue eyes wide, defiant yet forgiving Constantly inviting all your love for us to rise up in a pie I watch it caramelise The thing about hurt, it hangs in the air A subtext that’s felt, but never spoken Keeping the show on the road, like a trouper With fences to mend, babies to tend You got the spell and the spark, it sends our worries out to sea Silver machinery, wrapped up in harmony Now you’re fading from high c, no rhyme or reason, just a season To lay low beside your family The axis of your heart, turns and burns On the orbit of all our love for all you are I'm a stream and you’re the source When I turn around and you’re not there I see your blue eyes and they sparkle like a flare You whispered: Mind yourself Though you’re not there, I hear ya: Mind yourself, like a prayer Mind yourself An apple tart, wafting on the window Caked in lore, baked in love for me Those old ghosts won’t sit still and keep their oars out They’re rippling up a tide, it’s deep and it’s wide It floods the kitchen with memory, brings smiling and beguiling You bake on, blue eyes wide, defiant yet forgiving Constantly inviting all your love for us to rise up in a pie I watch it caramelise