Story Behind The Song

Have you ever walked into a house or an apartment of a really young couple that is madly in love, but they don?t have a lot of money? Did you notice that just about nothing in the room (including the furniture) matched. Okay, but did you also notice that the place just ?felt right?. Why did it feel right? Because although nothing in the room matched anything else, it ?rhymes? with everything else because the motivation behind it was selflessness, sharing, and love. Each individual in the relationship wants to share the best part of their past with the other member of the relationship. They also want to acquire things together (as a couple) that have little or know monetary value, but are sentimentally priceless. Sure, groan if you want, but I?ve been there?it just took me awhile to figure out what was going on. FYI Furniture starts ?rhyming? again after a couple has grown old together, and has been through many of life?s changes? - never being able to give up that favorite chair, or coffee table they got when they first got together. Just take a look around when you are in ?their? house. You?ll see what I mean. John

Song Description

A young couple just starting out - the woman dies, and leaves the man with a house full of bitter-sweet memories.

Lyrics

does the furniture rhyme

baby i think i could use a hand
the room is moving and i can barely stand
they won?t tell me why
but i know that you know
will you be alright after i go. . .

uphill buffalo in a downhill slide
that?s something she would say to me
when i roamed behind my pride
well i wonder what she?s saying now
as i look down where she?s laying
how i?d like to here her voice again
she knew me so well

don?t stand on the flowers don?t lean on the stone
did you ever get better are you living alone
does your mother still want you to go back to school
does the furniture rhyme

somebody said
nobody said this would be easy
but i did not ask to live this way
i didn?t know that every day
would rise and fall on top of me
the way that it does

don?t stand on the flowers don?t lean on the stone
did you ever get better are you living alone
does your mother still want you to go back to school

does the furniture rhyme in that box full of nothing
but somebody?s junk nobody wanted
that we just had to have

don?t stand on the flowers don?t lean on the stone
did you ever get better are you living alone
does your mother still want you to go back to school
does the furniture rhyme
are you living alone
did you ever
get better


lyrics ©2003 john martin
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