Three Flights Up Lyrics - Other Voices, Other Rooms - Nanci Griffith

We returned to that five room flat 

Now it was empty and this the last time 

There were blinking pictures 

Of how we'd sit and chat 

Some of them are scattered 

Others shattered in my mind 

It was always three flights up 

Cathedral bells kept time 

In the winter, a chatterin' cold 

While the building shook like ragweed in the wind 

Stories from the heat pipes 

We were told 

Now they only leave me 

With a half enchanted grin 

It was always three flights up 

Cathedral bells kept time 

Bicycles squeezed down alley ways into view 

And towels warmed on oven doors 

To not freeze 

Was the only thing to do 

And I wonder if we kept to the fair warning 

'Cause I can see it in the flowers 

Dyin' on the window sil 

I know we must be out by tomorrow mornin' 

But am I goin' against my will? 

It was always three flights up 

Cathedral bells kept time 

Bicycles squeezed down alley ways into view 

And towels warmed on oven doors 

To not freeze 

Was the only thing to do 

And I wonder if we kept to the fair warning 

'Cause I can see it in the flowers 

Dyin' on the window sil 

I know we must be out by tomorrow mornin' 

But am I goin' against my will 

It was always three flights up 

Cathedral bells kept time 

It was always three flights up 

Cathedral bells kept time