Porcelain Castle - Jenny Wilson

There is only clear soup

In the pot

I left it on the stove for you

Piping hot

But the table spoons are stained

And full of holes

I haven’t changed the sheets since

Five weeks back

When you left us

I rip them into rags

Wind them round my chest

Oh like a bandage

Oh I build a porcelain castle

Of the cups you used to drink from

I build a porcelain castle

On my dirty kitchen sink

I give a stranger on the street

All your clothes and all unsent letters

That I wrote to you

You are sailing a white ship

While row row row row a boat

Everybody seems to know

That a father should protect his kids

It has turned the opposite way

They adore you still

While you left us here in badlands

Oh I build a porcelain castle

Of the cups you used to drink from

Oh I build a porcelain castle

On my dirty kitchen sink

Row row row a boat

Row row row a boat

Row row row a boat…

There is only clear soup

In the pot

I left it on the stove for you

Piping hot

But the table spoons are stained

And full of holes

Oh I build a porcelain castle

Of the cups you used to drink from

I build a porcelain castle

On my dirty kitchen sink

I build a porcelain castle

Of the cups you used to drink from

I build a porcelain castle

On my dirty kitchen sink