A Shop with Our Name

You were fixing kitchen tables
In your brother's empty shed
I was keeping all the invoices
In a shoebox by the bed
Saw a little place for leasing
With a window painted white

A shop with our name
And a bell above the door
You can mend what people bring us
I can keep the books in order

We were open seven Mondays
Before someone brought a chair
You were careful with the spindle
Like a crowd was standing there
When she paid us at the counter
I put half away for rent

A shop with our name
And a bell above the door
You can mend what people bring us
I can keep the books in order

We had talked about a fortune
Now we talk about next week
There's a sign above the window
And a way to make ends meet

A shop with our name
And a bell above the door
You can mend what people bring us
I can keep the books in order

A shop with our name
Turn the little sign around