The Night My Piano Upped and Died

Love descended in the water
 In the breaking of the mother-daughter
 Father-son and lines of genes
 Rip and crease and keep things clean
 In the teeth and in the tether
 In the backwards-beating weather
 To the endpoint, to the hollow
 Two months' labour lost in colour
 Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
 The night my piano upped and died, died, died
 Love came down for many years
 And lost her teeth with raindrop tears
 Swelled her woodwork, pushed her pedals
 She went home without a medal
 She went down down, all the way
 Now she plays an alleway
 Now she cuts her shape with debt
 And now she's past it, past her best
 Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
 The night my piano upped and died, died, died
 Now she's past and all alone
 She laughs a drainpipe down the phone
 Somewhere in the distant nether
 I can hear her off the tether
 Off the hook go ones and twos
 Now she really sings the blues
 Now she dances at a mass
 Now she has her idle guys
 Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
 The night my piano upped and died, died, died