Lyrics
The condensation on the Brixton Water Lane window
traces the headline on last Tuesday's Metro.
His knuckles are white on the sill where my pot sits,
mapping the dust where your perfume used to settle.
Another new crane on the skyline, a quiet battle.
[Chorus]
They can re-zone the heart of the borough.
But my roots run deeper than their borrowed sorrow.
This is the elevation, this is the final draft.
[Verse 2]
The radiator hums, smells of hot metal and rust.
He whispers to the handset, "They served the whole block," a bitter trust.
Then he turns to me, his reflection pale in the glass,
and says it in Twi, what his mother said would last:
"Asem bɛba dabi."
[Chorus]
They can re-zone the heart of the borough.
But my roots run deeper than their borrowed sorrow.
This is the elevation, this is the final draft.
[Bridge]
The sun through the blinds throws a cage on the floorboards,
a blueprint of shadows, of unspoken final words.
[Outro]
My leaves haven't withered.
I'm still holding the light.
About Silas Croft
A former architecture student from South London, Silas Croft now builds songs instead of buildings. He uses the worn-down 1978 Fender P-Bass his father gave him to map the emotional blueprints of his life, writing about the ghosts of relationships and the changing face of his city. He still works a day job as a draftsman to pay his rent and talks to 'Cecil,' the overgrown houseplant his…
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