11 songs recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle. Engineered by Floyd Reitsma (Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell, Dave Matthews). Comes in a 6 panel digipak with full color artwork and layout by Joel Litwin. All credits and personnel listed.
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A friend in Ireland, from a little town called Bray, told me a story about the time he worked in his parents’ electronic repair shop and the old woman came in with the toaster. It was a story that stuck with me, and one day I turned it into the song. That part about the toaster is true, the rest is fiction.
lyrics
she came into the shop one day when snow was coming down
not a lot of customers, empty streets of town
just an old woman with an old style toaster in her hand
she laid it on the counter, said “fix it if you can”
“well, I can,” says I, “though it may take a day or two
but I’ll see what I can do, and get it back to you”
she smiled a thank you smile, her eyes loving gaze
“it’s the only heat I have,” she said, “and it’s been cold for days”
it’s the only heat I have, the only heat I have
she smiled a thank you smile, her eyes loving gaze
“it’s the only heat I have,” she said, “and it’s been cold for days”
it’s a little coastal town, where the mountains come to rest
with the Irish sea before me, and the landward to the west
you can watch the sunlight slanting, ‘neath the rolling patchwork sky
while family friends and strangers come and go to passing by
and I’d sit in the window in afternoons and raise a toast to it all
to the heights that I ascended to and how long it took to fall
I was used to my loneliness, didn’t think I could ever be surprised
until I met the young woman with the fire in her eyes
we could’ve been each other’s lovers, it happened pretty fast
but she was running after something that was just beyond her grasp
and I’d misread the fire, I thought it was for me
just goes to show that what you don’t know is right where it’s supposed to be
she was the only heat I had, the only heat I had
she packed up all that fire and a little extra too
she was the only heat I had but she was only passing through
so now I think about the wintertime that lays across the land
and I think about the old woman with the toaster in her hand
and I think about the girl who was only passing through
I hope she found what she was looking for, some people never do
she was the only heat I had, the only heat I had
she was the only heat I had, but she had somewhere to go
and I gave up feeling sorry for myself a long time ago
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