Lyrics
The sun hits the warped TDK on the milk crate.
5:17 AM, Tuesday, you were already running late.
Your side of the bed is a warm, rumpled dent.
I trace the frayed edge of the blanket, wonder where the last hour went.
[Chorus]
And I hit rewind, let the tape hiss and pop.
Gotta prune this memory 'til the bad feelings stop.
Yeah I hit rewind, get the garden just right,
before the real version grows over in the harsh morning light.
[Verse 2]
I replay you laughing, you're tracing the Folgers can's rim.
You said, "It's just coffee," a quiet, declarative hymn.
Like the roots of that bindweed I pulled from the yard last June,
some truths just take over the whole garden too soon.
[Bridge]
But I didn't say it was perfect, I just mumbled your name.
You were already halfway dressed, playing a different game.
And I almost said 'konjo', then I swallowed the word.
The most honest thing I felt, completely unheard.
[Outro]
The tape clicks. A long silence.
Just the hum of the fridge.
About Idris Veil
Idris Veil still lives in the West Oakland house his Ethiopian grandmother, Ababa, raised him in. He pays the bills working at a coffee shop just to be near the familiar smell of her home country. Every song is written late at night on a Fender Jaguar in his childhood bedroom, trying to fill a silence that’s become deafening. This is the sound of memory, lo-fi R&B filtered through Bay Area fog…
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