Lyrics
The click of the Dimplex in the Moss Side kitchen
is the only drum we knew at three in the morning.
We learned the language of the floorboards creaking,
the tired sigh of a key in the door turning.
[Chorus]
They gave us the silence, the hum we could keep.
They wove us a shelter while the city was asleep.
[Verse 2]
Palm oil hitting the pan, a soft kind of hissing,
the sound of their prayers whispered under the breath.
“Don’t worry, nne,” we heard through the plaster wall,
a promise sewn tight in the fabric of death.
Their hands held the needle, we carry the thread.
[Chorus]
They gave us the silence, the hum we could keep.
They wove us a shelter while the city was asleep.
[Bridge]
And now in our own rooms, the heating is steady.
We’re tailoring futures from their half-drawn pattern.
[Outro]
A hum we can keep.
While the city’s asleep.
About Adaeze Umbra
Adaeze Umbra was raised in Manchester's Moss Side, translating council forms for her Nigerian parents by day and memorizing their Stax records by night. She found her voice somewhere between the post-industrial grey of the North and the vibrant Igbo culture of her home. After dropping out of a literature degree, she began writing songs while working in a fabric shop, turning the textures of her…
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