Five Room Love Story lyrics

I met her in a church on a Sunday morning

Not late on a Saturday night.

She sang Ave Maria

a little flat and out of time

But that's what drew me to her so that's alright.

As she placed a nickel

in the basket that I held before her

I asked her to be my wife.

And there's one cardboard heart for every time you said I love you,

A painted star for every secret that we shared,

The dried lima beans and small plastic birds

Because you cared.

I hear them talk and I watch them swap their old black and whites.

Bitter and beaten they talk of life's cheatin' like old boxers comparing scars.

All I remember is a smile

at the top of every working morning

And a shoulder always willing and able

And all those nights that we'd spend just sitting

And talking around our kitchen table.

And there's one cardboard heart for every time you said I love you,

A painted star for every secret that we shared,

The dried lima beans and small plastic birds

Because you cared.

Five rooms made stronger by the breaking and the healing

Of the two hearts they protected within

And now one heart left aching,

pasting and painting

These walls with memories of all that has been.

And there's one cardboard heart for every time you said I love you,

A painted star for every secret that we shared,

The dried lima beans and small plastic birds

Because you cared.

• Artist:Cowboy Junkies
• Album:Rarities, B-Sides, and Slow, Sad Waltzes