Lyrics
The ILR form, section four, on the North Street kitchen table,
The biro ink is bleeding through a cheap and hopeful fable.
The waiting room is beige and hot, smells of damp wool and panic,
The weave of the carpet's worn so thin it's almost geologic.
[Chorus]
And this is the good stitch, the best I can do,
Mending the gaps between me and you, with my polite English.
[Verse 2]
The woman's watch is ticking off the minutes of my future,
She files a nail and doesn't look, a slow and silent suture.
I'm trying to unspool a smile I don't quite own this Tuesday,
While every knot inside my throat has got too much to say.
[Chorus]
And this is the good stitch, the best I can do,
Mending the gaps between me and you, with my polite English.
[Bridge]
My mother's voice, a tangled thread, "Będzie dobrze, synku."
You just hold the fabric straight, and let the needle run true.
[Outro]
The door clicks shut behind me now.
A seam that holds, somehow.
About Cat Steven
Cat Steven was raised on the Isle of Wight, splitting his weeks between two homes after his parents' divorce: a boat-builder's cottage by the sea and a gardener's house inland. He learned to play on his father's old nylon-string guitar, writing songs to map the emotional distance between his two lives. Now based in Bristol, his music untangles the threads of a life spent in-between, searching for…
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