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We found your name across the chapel door
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals
And some bootmarks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade
To keep the crowd from peeking in
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house
And telling everyone you'd drowned
The begging choir told the captain's man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two
They'd gladly track you down
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow
Across a long lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm
And placed it on your dreaming head
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals
And some bootmarks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade
To keep the crowd from peeking in
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house
And telling everyone you'd drowned
The begging choir told the captain's man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two
They'd gladly track you down
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow
Across a long lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm
And placed it on your dreaming head
Lyrics submitted by slickboot
Track duration: 02:44
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This song to me is about 3 people. The singer, a woman, and the past love(who has died).
"Found your name across the chapel door carved in cursive with a table fork"
The singer who is the current lover of the woman comes to the funeral. He sees the name she was suppose to have after marrying the past love. The description its carved in cursive with a table fork means it took a long time. Something someone would have to take time to do. It was suppose to be her name.
"Found your children by the tavern door"
Once again these were the children she was suppose to have. The past lover married someone else.
"Found you sleeping by your lover's stone, a ream of paper and a telephone, a broken bow across a long lost violin."
He finds her at the grave. The ream of paper is the address for the funeral, whilst the telephone is the call she got informing her of the lover's passing. A broken bow across a violin is a metaphor for them being meant to be together or at least she thought but now he's gone/broken.
"Your lover's angel told the captain's man, it never ends the way we had it planned, kissed your palm and placed it on your dreaming head"
This is either what she feels happened or what she tells herself. If her lover could speak to her he would tell her he loved her things just don't work out sometimes. Right person, wrong time that kind of thing.
Thats just my dumb interpretation. Alot of Beam's music that deal with love seem to have the same theme of being plagued with the regret of letting that one get away. Look at "Bird Stealing Bread", "Promising Light", "Sixteen Maybe Less" and "Passing Afternoon"