Lyrics
(Sound of a phone ringing, then a voicemail beep)
Look, I know it's gone two, and this is odd.
The PG Tips tin on the boat-shed wall
Is rusting through at the seam. It's a cheap, flat god
We prayed to for the fuses. I can't recall your voice at all.
[Chorus]
Is it a kindness or a killing, this slow unpicking?
Every fibre of you the silent years are stripping.
Is it a mercy or a crime?
The second fading over time.
[Verse 2]
I found that woollen jumper from the Ryde jumble.
Still smells of damp chalk and your roll-up smoke.
I remember you said, "Love, don't you dare crumble,"
But the colour of your eyes? It's the first bad joke
The quiet tells.
[Chorus]
Is it a kindness or a killing, this slow unpicking?
Every fibre of you the silent years are stripping.
Is it a mercy or a crime?
The second fading over time.
[Bridge]
So I'm holding onto the warp of one stupid thing:
The way you'd tap the barometer glass, and wait for it to sing.
Just that one last thread against the coming grey.
[Outro]
(Music cuts out completely, leaving only raw, close-mic vocal)
This unpicking...
(Click, hang-up tone)
About Cat Steven
Cat Steven was raised on the Isle of Wight, splitting his weeks between two homes after his parents' divorce: a boat-builder's cottage by the sea and a gardener's house inland. He learned to play on his father's old nylon-string guitar, writing songs to map the emotional distance between his two lives. Now based in Bristol, his music untangles the threads of a life spent in-between, searching for…
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