Lyrics
You're sanding down the newel post at number seventeen,
On Hangingwater Road, the air is pine-dust sharp and clean.
It’s four o’clock on Tuesday, you trace the wood’s dark vein,
Like the slow geology of a house that’s known too much rain.
[Chorus]
And what do you do with a secret?
A lie that settles in the bone.
You feel the fault-line widen, and you're working there alone.
[Verse 2]
The front door clicked just moments past, the gravel gave a sigh,
Her car was gone, another's stood where the winter roses die.
You heard her laugh, a different key, a tremor from the floor,
Then his voice ask, "Is anyone around?" behind the parlour door.
[Chorus]
So what do you do with a secret?
A lie that settles in the bone.
You feel the fault-line widen, and you're working there alone.
[Bridge]
A sunbeam cuts the landing, ignites the floating chalk,
And for a second you forget the way that shadows walk.
It’s just a measure of dust, suspended in the light,
The weight of what you're building, stark and true and white.
[Outro]
He told you, "Make the staircase true." You pack your tools away.
Some cracks you just fill over, and pray they hold for a day.
About Nick Drayton
Nick Drayton grew up in the shadow of a limestone quarry in Buxton, Derbyshire. He dropped out of a university literature degree after a year and a half, finding more truth in the worn-out faces at the cafe where he now works as a barista. His hushed, intricate songs, written on a beat-up acoustic guitar, are drawn from the slow, painful end of a five-year relationship and the quiet lives he…
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