The Apartments - Things You'll Keep Lyrics

Sat outside the darkened house
Reading one of your old letters
I'd carried it from town to town
I sometimes hoped for you
Things got better
It says" We'e got a place by the river now
The rooms are full of light, it's still our town
If there's such a thing as a second chance...
I want it now."
That's what it says

Things you keep
Some things you were never meant to lose
The things you keep
Some things the world cannot refuse
The things you keep

You thought there was a way out
So you took it on your hands and knees
Oh what if your best days are gone
How do you plead?
Day to day is a hurting thing
You're tired of all beauty now
And you said goodbye to your baby face
You said it to just about everything
Things you keep

Some things you were never meant to lose
The things…