Rare version of the song, home recorded for Feist's self-produced demo session, informally called "The Red Demos" (2001). You can even hear the traffic in this home recording of a song stripped down to bare loveliness and with a straightforward deliverance of musical idea. Official version is to be found on her second full-length album "Let It Die" (2004).
Lyrics:
Helping the kids out of their coats
But wait the babies haven't been born
Unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups
But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay
Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
I got a man to stick it out
And make a home from a rented house
And we'll collect the moments one by one
I guess that's how the future's done
How many acres how much light
Tucked in the woods and out of sight
Talk to the neighbours and tip my cap
On a little road barely on the map
Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
Old dirt road
Rambling rose
Watching the fire as we grow
In a ??? house by the shore
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