Lyrics
I'm the middle C he won't fix from Aveiro,
My wire sings the rust of this postcode's grey.
I watch his hands hesitate on the keys below,
Practicing the words he'll never say.
[Chorus]
And the waiting hum is the only sound
When your shadow leaves the ground.
Will you take the warmth? Will you leave the cold?
A story I've already been told.
[Verse 2]
Heard you tell her, "it's always been this way,"
Your thumb pressing down, a familiar weight.
The dust motes dance in the DLR's late ray,
On the unopened letter by the gate.
[Chorus]
And the waiting hum is the only sound
When your shadow leaves the ground.
Will you take the warmth? Will you leave the cold?
A story I've already been told.
[Bridge]
The scaffolding outside is coming down, Tuesday.
Will my frame be the next thing you strip bare?
I feel the silence coming, a new shade of grey.
[Outro]
Just the hum...
...he won't fix.
About Harbour Leon
Harbour Leon is the project of Leonardo Almeida, an only child raised in a Portuguese family in the shadow of the London Docklands. He learned to play on an out-of-tune piano shipped from his grandmother in Aveiro, its buzzing middle C a sound he still refuses to fix. His atmospheric deep house is built from field recordings taken on his weekly walks along the Thames, mapping the city's…
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