The Lamp in Number Fourteen Never Goes Out

Lyrics

I see it from my kitchen when I'm washing up
A yellow lamp across the garden wall
I've lived here eleven years and never met
The person who keeps it lit through it all

Some nights it's the only light on the street
When the fog comes up from the river bed
I've started to think of it as company
A small gold thought in my head

So here's to the lamp in number fourteen
To whoever keeps the night at bay
You don't know me and I don't know you
But you've lit a little way
Here's to the lamp, here's to the glow
Here's to the quiet things we never say

When my mother was ill I sat up late
With a cup of tea gone cold in my hands
And I looked across and the lamp was still on
And somehow I understood the plans

Maybe the stranger who helped me most
Never knew they had helped at all
Just a light left on in a window
For no one, for everyone, for all

So here's to the lamp in number fourteen
To whoever keeps the night at bay
You don't know me and I don't know you
But you've lit a little way
Here's to the lamp, here's to the glow
Here's to the quiet things we never say

Here's to the quiet things we never say