In October 2013, in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, Nash elaborated:
"Well, it’s an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni [Mitchell] and I – I don’t know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the Valley, there’s a very famous deli called Art’s Deli. And we’d been to breakfast there. We’re going to get into Joan’s car, and we pass an antique store. And we’re looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy … I persuaded her to buy this vase. It wasn’t very expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. And we got to the house in Laurel Canyon, and I said – got through the front door and I said, you know what? I’ll light a fire. Why don’t you put some flowers in that vase that you just bought? Well, she was in the garden getting flowers. That meant she was not at her piano, but I was … And an hour later ‘Our House’ was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced."
I'll light the fire
You place the flowers in the vase
That you bought today
Staring at the fire
For hours and hours while I listen to
you
Play your love songs all night long
For me, only for me
Come to me now
And rest your head for just five
minutes
Everything is done
Such a cozy room
The windows are illuminated by the
evening
Sunshine through them, fiery gems
For you, only for you
Our house is a very, very, very fine
house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy cause of you
And our...
[Interlude]
La-la,
la-la-la la la...
Our house is a very, very, very fine
house (fine house)
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy cause of you
And our...
I'll light the fire
While you place the flowers in the
vase
That you bought today.
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