Lyrics
You trace the scar tissue on your own left palm
Where the key to your flat on Queen's Road cut a line.
You keep it warm in your pocket, a clinical charm,
A contingency plan that you hope you'll never find.
[Chorus]
This is the gospel of the second key,
A hallelujah just for you and me.
My whole body is a hymn for you,
In every tendon, this is true.
[Verse 2]
Last Tuesday you said, "It's just physics, you see,"
The way my proximal radius fits your hand's design.
And you treat that simple contact like a holy decree,
A pressure point to stop the world from breaking your spine.
[Chorus]
This is the gospel of the second key,
A hallelujah just for you and me.
My whole body is a hymn for you,
In every tendon, this is true.
[Bridge]
(The music drops to a single, fingerpicked acoustic guitar and a hushed, close-mic'd vocal)
But you've rehearsed the atrophy of Sunday afternoons,
How you'll take the Overground to Nunhead, just to walk.
You'll feel the phantom limb of my arm in empty rooms,
The brittle articulation of your own internal talk.
[Outro]
(The full band and gospel arrangement crash back in, then fade, leaving only the Rhodes and a final vocal line)
This is the gospel of the second key...
A hallelujah... just for me.
About Caden Atlas
For seven years, Caden Atlas worked as an NHS physical therapist in South London, treating sprains, breaks, and chronic pain. He learned to play guitar on a patient's vintage Fender Jaguar, writing songs that used the language of anatomy to diagnose the city's invisible heartaches. At 29, he left his clinical career behind, trading his uniform for a recording studio. His music is the sound of…
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