Lyrics

KIND AND GENTLE ONE

We’re losing a kind and gentle one again
Seems every other week another old growth beauty is fallen
A dear friend of the sidestreets, a midwife of the born again
An artist in the alleyway, a chaplain of the dead ends

We’re losing a kind and gentle one again

Memory of a care package from your simple home in the countryside
Would never reach the House of Lords, red carpets in the City of Lights
No bouquets from the Vatican, the Nobel, the New York Times
For sharing with the starlings, staying bedside through the night

We’re losing a kind and gentle one again
We’re losing a kind and gentle one again

Cruelty on the marquis and clearcuts out of sight
Your garden in the brownfield was planted just in time
We need your feel for the delivery room, your unspoken it’ll be alright
You leave your spare poetry, open table, undying invite

We’re losing a kind and gentle one again
We’re losing a kind and gentle one again
We’re losing a kind and gentle one again
We’re losing a kind and gentle one again