[Verse 1] Love descended in the water In the breaking of the mother-daughter Father-son and lines of genes Rip and crease and keep things clean In the teeth and in the tether In the backwards-beating weather To the endpoint to the hollow Two loves’ labours lost in colour [Hook] Lost in dreams and crumpled pride The night my piano upped and died died died [Verse 2] Love came down for many years And lost her teeth with raindrop tears Swelled her woodwork pushed her pedals She went home without a medal She went down down all the way Now she plays an alleway Now she cuts her shape with debt And now she’s past it past her best [Hook] Lost in dreams and crumpled pride The night my piano upped and died died died [Verse 3] Now she’s past and all alone She laughs a drainpipe down the phone Somewhere in the distant nether I can hear her off the tether Off the hook of ones and twos Now she really sings the blues Now she dances at a mess Now she has her idle guys [Hook] Lost in dreams and crumpled pride The night my piano upped and died died died