Lyrics
The top left drawer by the Kennebec sink
Holds the brass key you swore you didn't need.
A book of matches, the ink starting to bleed,
A single silver cufflink on the brink.
[Chorus]
And all the things you leave behind
Live inside this plimsoll line.
Your ghost is here, the tide is high.
[Verse 2]
This calendar page says it's almost May.
Your denim jacket smells like diesel and the pier.
"Don't wait up," you said, like I wouldn't stay here,
Tracing the rust on a lure, turning grey.
[Chorus]
And all the things you leave behind
Live inside this plimsoll line.
Your ghost is here, the tide is high.
[Bridge]
You think this drawer is just a holding space,
A quiet harbor for the things you misplace.
You don't feel the weight, you can't see the trace
Of the fog that settles on my face.
[Outro]
The verdigris blooms on everything you touch.
About Fen Hollins
Fen Hollins was raised by a single mother who worked the line at a Maine fish cannery, a reality that seeps into the bones of her music. Her songs, written on a vintage Juno-60 synthesizer in a small Portland apartment overlooking the sea, are love letters to a fisherman who, like the tide, always leaves and always returns. To pay rent, she spends her days transcribing the logs of 19th-century…
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