Song 100: Everyday Miracle

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
She sets the table every evening
Fork on the left and the knife on the right
And the glass where the glass has always been
And this choreography of silverware
Is the longest-running show in the apartment
And no one has ever bought a ticket
And the audience is a cat

The oxytocin isn't fireworks anymore
It's the low hum of a radiator
That you only notice when it stops
And when it stops
You'd trade every firework you ever saw
To hear it start again

[Chorus]
Everyday miracle, everyday miracle
The ordinary thing that breaks you if it leaves
Everyday miracle, everyday miracle
Love is not the lightning
Love is what the lightning finds
Already living in the trees

Not the monument — the ordinary stone
Not the opera — the song she sings alone
While washing the dishes
While the city does its mathematics
And the evening counts its change

[Verse 2]
He reads the paper with his glasses on his nose
And she has memorized the angle
Thirty-seven years of the same angle
And the prefrontal cortex has filed this
Under "essential infrastructure"
The way a city files its bridges

If the angle changed
She would know before the newspaper hit the table
The amygdala would fire a tiny flare
Not danger — just the registration
That a continent had shifted
In the geography of breakfast

[Chorus]
Everyday miracle, everyday miracle
The ordinary thing that breaks you if it leaves
Everyday miracle, everyday miracle
Love is not the lightning
Love is what the lightning finds
Already living in the trees

Not the monument — the ordinary stone
Not the opera — the song she sings alone
Everyday miracle
Every single day

[Bridge]
I catalogued a hundred loves
And the bravest one
Was the one that didn't need a name

It just showed up
Set the table
Fed the cat
And fell asleep on the couch
With one sock on
And the television talking to itself


And if that isn't sacred
Then I don't know what sacred means
And I have looked

[Outro]

Everyday miracle
Every day