You kept the badge

the numbers

bpm

144

key

D# minor

energy

0.72

dance

0.96

valence

0.53

vocal at

6.6s

length

4:14

language

En

lyrics

You hung your coat on the chair by the sink

Left your keys by the bread bin, half in the dark

You never said it once, not a word I could think

Just that hard little look when I came back from park

Then Mum found it tucked in the glove box drawer

Blue card curled at the edge, creased like before

My name in your hand, still there in the fold

And I stood in the hall with my mouth gone cold

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

That blue card said enough

On the kitchen wall, by the off-white phone

There was a bent-up pin from the school hall stage

All that time you said I should do things alone

But you kept my name on the back of the page

No big speech, no pat on the arm

Just that box with my stuff, safe from harm

I saw it and knew, in the old brown light

You were proud of me then, you just held it tight

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

That blue card said enough

I was nineteen, boots by the hall

You were leaning on the bannister, watching the wall

And in that drawer with the screws and string

Was the one small thing you didn't need to keep

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

You kept the badge

That blue card said enough