Before This Day lyrics

Dad is painting windowframes
At the top of the house
Mom steadies the ladder
With a slippered foot
My sister cannot bring herself
To pour poison on the ants
Working their way frantically
Up the inside corners of this soon-to-be a home

I run through grass that is grown high above my head
I am a million miles away
I have no memories
I have no memories before this day

Cup of tea for the plumber
Cup of coffee for the builder
Brother sister, father mother
Each in love with one another
Somewhere, a whistling kettle
I meet the world and the world is a stinging nettle

I run through grass that is grown high above my head
I am a million miles away
I have no memories
I have no memories before this day