Lyrics
Leo, the scar on my palm is a datum line.
From that rebar at the Maastunnel, third of October, '09.
It still aches when the rain's coming in from the Hook.
A knot of solid tissue holding a look.
[Chorus]
And these are the permanent works, my love.
The tensile ache, the stress above.
This scaffolding of quiet we're building up.
Is it ever enough?
[Verse 2]
Your jacket still smells like the Waalhaven docks.
The diesel and damp that gets into the locks.
"You'll be a story," you said, hand pressed on the blood.
Just another foundation laid in the mud.
[Chorus]
And these are the permanent works, my love.
The tensile ache, the stress above.
This scaffolding of quiet we're building up.
Is it ever enough?
[Bridge]
And I'm tracing the fault line, feeling the shear.
The fury is tender, the reason is clear.
We built this to last against the North Sea tide.
So where do we hide?
[Outro]
Leo. The scar... is a datum line.
About Joris Calder
Joris Calder was seven when he entered the Dutch foster care system, and eleven when a foster mother in Rotterdam put her father’s old cello in his hands. He aged out of the system at 18, taking a job coordinating logistics at the city’s massive industrial port. Now a producer, he channels the concrete and steel of his upbringing into soaring, trance-to-EDM anthems, building something permanent…
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