Lyrics
The last X54 coughs its way up Firth Park Road.
Twenty-past-midnight, the cold off the window glass freezes my knuckles white.
And I see your old man's hands, the ones that built your garden wall,
Resting on the shoulder of a woman I don't know at all.
[Chorus]
My eyes are a church now, a cold and empty space.
I saw something holy burn, right there on her face.
My eyes are a church now, and I can't look away.
[Verse 2]
He looks right through me, a ghost in a parka, face lit by his phone.
"Just one more stop," he says to her, in that low, familiar tone.
I get off at the depot, walk home past the silent terraced rows.
And this new brick in my stomach is a weight that only grows.
[Bridge]
(Drums and voice only)
Tell him. Don't. Break it. Won't.
The whole damn structure's built on it.
Tell him. Don't. Let it sit.
[Outro]
A load-bearing lie.
Holding up the sky.
About Keir Bitumen
Keir Bitumen was raised in Sheffield by a single mother who worked three jobs. He saw her fall asleep at the kitchen table from exhaustion and swore he'd make enough so she could stop; he hasn't yet, and the guilt fuels every note. After leaving school at sixteen to work as a scaffolder, he started writing songs on a battered Telecaster about the grit and grace of post-industrial life. These…
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