Lyrics
That last Tuesday in August, the Magnolia tree
dropped all its bruised petals on the 12th Street Muni.
We were counting the cracks in the pavement, a root system
learning the city's slow rhythm 'fore we knew we would miss it.
The air tasted like exhaust and someone's Sunday barbecue smoke.
[Chorus]
Oh, we didn't know we were golden,
just a sun setting slow, a story unfolding.
[Verse 2]
Somebody's Ababa yelled, "Yene konjo, get inside!"
but the sky was that color that felt holy for a minute.
We traded worn-out G-funk tapes, a currency of static,
practicing a coolness that was never automatic.
Our futures sticky on our hands like a half-melted pop.
[Chorus]
Oh, we didn't know we were golden,
just a sun setting slow, a story unfolding.
[Bridge]
You can't rewind the tape to the part before the fade-out,
now we just watch each other's lives through a glass pane now.
[Outro]
The last Tuesday in August...
Yeah, we were all there, weren't we?
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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