EMOTIONAL · PIANO BALLAD
Your Blue Coat
For Mum, in all the small things
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Why this song was made
This remembrance song follows a daughter finding her late mother's blue coat before winter. It holds onto the small, practical ways her mum showed love without pretending grief has a deadline.
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[Verse 1]
Your blue coat hangs behind the door; I haven't moved it yet,
There's a shopping list inside it and a ticket folded wet.
You needed milk and oranges, a birthday card for June,
Such ordinary little plans that finished far too soon.
[Chorus]
I carry what you gave me through each day,
An extra plate, a hug, the words I say.
Some mornings I can hold it; some I cry,
Your love is in that blue coat, kept nearby.
[Verse 2]
I heard your laugh in mine today and stopped beside the stairs,
Then phoned my brother just to ask if he was getting there.
We talked about the awful cake you made when I turned nine,
And for a breath we laughed enough to let a little sunlight shine.
[Bridge]
I'm not searching for a lesson in the empty kitchen chair,
Some days I only miss you, and I wish that you were there.
The weather turned this morning; I put your blue coat on,
And felt the mended pocket where your careful hands had gone.
[Chorus]
I carry what you gave me through each day,
An extra plate, a hug, the words I say.
Some mornings I can hold it; some I cry,
Your love is in that blue coat, kept nearby.