SONG

Carry One Burrow

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Prompt

This song will be about two ferrets that live in the forest and they’ve built a life together and one day one of the ferrets goes to bed. The second ferret comes to bed later. The first ferret is cold to the touch. Basically this song is kind of touching on my becoming a widower my wife committed suicide in January and I want to talk about this. I want to sing about this, but I would rather write a song about two ferrets becoming one ferret because one of them died and how the other fair has to move on and I kind of wanna have it like that.

Lyrics

Verse 1

We dug our home beneath the roots of the pines

Two little ferrets with our tails intertwined

We built a life out of moss and of leaves

You knew the forest and the forest knew me

One night you told me you were going to bed

I stayed out late where the river bends

Chorus

Two ferrets in the forest, now there's only one

I came home to the burrow and the warmth was gone

I curled up beside you, you were cold to the touch

Two ferrets in the forest, now there's only one

Verse 2

The winter came in and it never let go

I still leave room in the hollow we know

I hear the branches and I think it's your feet

I keep on waking where you used to sleep

I didn't see the dark you carried inside

I'd give the whole forest for one more night

Chorus

Two ferrets in the forest, now there's only one

I came home to the burrow and the warmth was gone

I curled up beside you, you were cold to the touch

Two ferrets in the forest, now there's only one

Bridge

They say a ferret has to learn to run alone

To find the morning, find the way back home

I'm not ready, but I'm stepping out the door

Carrying you like I never did before

Final Chorus

Two ferrets in the forest, now there's only one

I walk out from the burrow and I face the sun

I still feel you beside me, I still love you so much

Two ferrets in the forest, now there's only one